User talk:Carl martineau berkeley

March 2019
Hello, I'm HickoryOughtShirt?4. I noticed that you recently removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:24, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:41, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Carl martineau berkeley welcome to Wikipedia. Please respond to my questions below about a possible conflict of interest.HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:47, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Carl martineau berkeley and welcome to Wikipedia. I understand Wikipedia has a learning curve and I would be pleased to help guide you through an introduction of this website. Please stop your disruptive editing and respond to my questions here in the mean time. On Wikipedia, we follow a specific manual of style which includes using last names (WP:LASTNAME) after the introduction. As well, you have repeatedly broken templates and have failed to use edit summaries to explain any of your edits. Please understand that Wikipedia is a collaborative project and WP:Communication is required. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:58, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Carl martineau berkeley. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Melissa Hill, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:33, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019
Hello Carl martineau berkeley. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Melissa Hill, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Carl martineau berkeley. 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. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:39, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:49, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
 * If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistently making disruptive edits. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:08, 23 March 2019 (UTC)