User talk:Fcmoore29

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November 2016
Hello, I'm Ahunt. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. - Ahunt (talk) 19:20, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Italic type
I notice you have been adding information about local newspapers to several Canadian articles. Please note that newspaper titles are written using italic type. Please see MOS:ITALICTITLE for details. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 15:03, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Citation SPAM
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Cornwall, Ontario. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Also, the citations you added in many articles, all contain bare URLs and promote a single Internet entity. In addition to the external links guideline and spam guideline, please review bare URLs. Thank you. --  W ILD S TAR  talk 21:24, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

June 2020
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did at North Bay, Ontario, you may be blocked from editing. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. John from Idegon (talk) 06:23, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

September 2020
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising, as you did at Stratford, Ontario. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:41, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Can you explain further please why it is not allowed to simply list a new media outlet under "Media" for Stratford, Ontario? I did not use any links to promote it. The Stratford Local is essentially an online local newspaper which you can see: https://www.thestratfordlocal.com/. Fcmoore29 (talk) 18:06, 23 September 2020 (UTC)fcmoore29

Hello Fcmoore29. 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 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:Fcmoore29. 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. Per our discussion on my talk page. Magnolia677 (talk) 10:22, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

I will submit proposed changes through the Talk page of an article in future. Fcmoore29 (talk) 16:36, 26 September 2020 (UTC)fcmoore29