User talk:GStephens92178

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COI
I mentioned you on the Conflict of Interest noticeboard. If you have an association with Loudon, you need to declare it. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 16:01, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Again you have been mentioned on the COI noticeboard. Britishfinance, this is another example of what you raised concerns about. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 00:34, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks . 15 edits over the last 15 months and all to a single BLP with a single agenda to those edits.  Doesn't give the impression that they are here to build an encyclopedia. Britishfinance (talk) 09:26, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I find it hard to believe that the Dr. Gina Loudon photograph on her BLP passed copyvio - an(other) SPA loaded it up and claimed copyright, but I can see that it is used on other papers where copyright is asserted and I can see no link with the SPA who loaded the picture to commons? Britishfinance (talk) 09:30, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * This editor is also very likely a sockpuppet. Shows up immediately after GStephens gets brought to the COI noticeboard and is held to 3RR. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 10:41, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

July 2019
Hello GStephens92178. 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:GStephens92178. 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. David Gerard (talk) 09:17, 12 July 2019 (UTC)