User talk:David Best Reader

October 2019
Hello David Best Reader. The nature of your edits 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 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:David Best Reader. 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. bonadea contributions talk 18:45, 26 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello Bonadea. I have reviewed your claims, and declare that my opinion is not bought. This is completely my opinion. I have noticed inaccuracies in this article. I am familiar with this organization and I can say with confidence about the correctness and unpaidness of my version of the article. Please accept my changes as an independent opinion. I thank you beforehand for your full cooperation. David Best Reader (talk) 10:07, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Europe Business Assembly, you may be blocked from editing. ''

Note that this could equally well have been a warning against adding promotional language. Wikipedia is not an advertising platform and cannot be used for companies to improve their image.

Wikipedia is not biased and our own opinions should never be added to articles. What is your connection to User:Mykola Shestak, User:Editthisandthat, and User:Truth and honour, all of whom have also been trying to use Wikipedia to promote the EBA, using arguments and phrasing that are almost indistinguishable from your edits? bonadea'' contributions talk 10:22, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of indefinite duration for spam and advertising, most likely block evasion and paid editing. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. 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:. User:Ymblanter (talk) 11:13, 27 October 2019 (UTC)