User talk:Bennelson8801

January 2022
Hi Bennelson8801! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at National CleanUp Day that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Please also read up on WP:RS and WP:FORBESCON Graywalls (talk) 06:29, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Graywalls. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to National CleanUp Day have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. it appears that you may have a personal or professional connection with the organization and/or the event beyond a passing connection and article is written in a manner that promotes the event. Graywalls (talk) 18:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Verification
Hi. How do either of these two links, added to the Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful (KNIB) article, support the text they have been placed alongside? The first (archive.niassembly.gov.uk) link appears to be dead. The second link (to a DOENI publication) does not mention the subject org (KNIB/Tidy NI), or fast food litter or connect one with the other. What am I missing? Guliolopez (talk) 20:34, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Graywalls (talk) 06:15, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

July 2023
Hello Bennelson8801. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to National Cleanup Day, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Bennelson8801. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Do you have a professional relationship with National Cleanup Day? Graywalls (talk) 04:45, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

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January 2024
Your edit to Earth Day has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 13:52, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Earth Day, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Bennelson8801, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Marketing, and/or public relations editing. Graywalls (talk) 14:48, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

June 2024
You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. No response to prior marketing, and/or public relations editing warning, but another edit occurred. Graywalls (talk) 18:53, 7 June 2024 (UTC)