User talk:Delorean2014

October 2023
Hello, I'm Scope creep. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Michael Serbinis 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. Thank you.  scope_creep Talk  20:32, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello Delorean2014. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Michael Serbinis, 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:Delorean2014. 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.  scope_creep Talk  20:35, 11 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * I am not being compensated at all by editing this article on Michael Serbinis. I wrote the article as an employee of his at League, however, each sentence in the updated article was meticulously researched and sourced. There is no reason to revert the article back to the original state, and then edit it further down from there. Please let me know how to proceed where I can update this article with facts, but without breaching Wikipedia's rules. Delorean2014 (talk) 12:24, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The article was a promotional mess and won't be going back in. As you have a WP:COI you will need to start using the edit request mechanism to request for edits to update the article. Don't make any more direct edits to the article. Also while I'm here do not make any more external links in the body of any article.  Wikipedia is not a web host or forum or substack where any old junk can be added. There is strict rules on the type of content that can be added to article as well as its structure. They are strictly illegal. If you add any more junk external links to any article in that manner again, I will issue warnings against you. 3 more warnings and its a block.     scope_creep Talk  13:56, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
 * You need to declare you a Conflict of Interest per the instructions ar WP:COI.   scope_creep Talk  14:01, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
 * As your an employee of League Inc, and he is the CEO in a private company, your being paid by him. You need to disclose per WP:PAID and WP:DISCLOSE.   scope_creep Talk  14:05, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you.  scope_creep Talk  06:38, 12 October 2023 (UTC)