User talk:Franglaiseausud

March 2021
Hello Franglaiseausud. 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:Franglaiseausud. 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. Blablubbs | talk 11:58, 3 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Just seen this message. Just to confirm I was not directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. Franglaiseausud (talk) 10:18, 12 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Interesting to see what the other editor thought way back when; your edit to Winchester College today has similarly given the impression of advertising, which must be unintentional on your part. Wikipedia is necessarily global and impartial, and must not give the appearance of taking any side or promoting any business (WP:ADV). Language must accordingly be strictly neutral (WP:N). The lead section, by the way, is meant to be just a summary of the article body, and of material which is already explained and reliably cited down there too. It's therefore no good adding anything to the lead which does not seem to be a purely factual summary of existing material in the article. Hope this is clear. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:04, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Winchester College controversies (October 19)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Greenman was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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Greenman (talk) 11:59, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

October 2023
Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Winchester College. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. ''I'm sorry to have to issue a formal warning, but I put a polite discussion on your talk page and you've simply ignored it, so here we are. Please stop, the tone is simply wrong for Wikipedia.'' Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:07, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising, as you did at Winchester College. Drmies (talk) 16:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, as you did at Winchester College, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:41, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Your edit to Winchester College, copied illegally from https://www.winchestercollege.org/assets/files/uploads/Winchester%20College%20in%20the%2021st%20Century_Final_Vision.pdf, 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. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:51, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistently making disruptive edits. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Drmies (talk) 17:04, 30 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for your comments. Unfortunately your messages all appeared within a couple of hours of each other so by the time I checked back following editing, I had been blocked. I certainly did not intend to 'simply ignore' your initial message or be disruptive, any mistakes I made regarding Wikipedia style and rules were accidental and not intended maliciously. In the spirit of sharing, and given that you are clearly more knowledgeable about wikipedia rules and regs than I am, it would be helpful to have the message icon flag up on the screen if there is a problem so that the person editing can immediately read and assess, rather than realise too late that they are blocked. Given Wikipedia's pronouncement that anyone can edit a page, I'm sure I'm not the only person who would find this useful.
 * Best wishes Franglaiseausud (talk) 08:35, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Please see Help:Notifications. Malicious or not (I have no opinion), your edits were plainly promotional and unverified, as well as unexplained, and then there was the copyvio. Surely you noticed that your edits were being reverted. Drmies (talk) 12:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I did not notice that my edits were being reverted, at the time I logged off they had been published. It was only when I logged back in again the following day that I saw they had been reverted. I now realise that my edits contravened Wikipedia rules having read further into this and I can only apologise and assure you that if I am unblocked, this will not happen again. Franglaiseausud (talk) 15:34, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Winchester College controversies
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 12:08, 20 March 2024 (UTC)