User talk:GolfEditorUSA

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome!  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 21:06, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020


This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. G M G talk  19:23, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive behaviour. It appears you are purposefully harassing another editor. Wikipedia aims to provide a safe environment for its collaborators, and harassing other users potentially compromises that safe environment. If you continue behaving like this, you may be blocked from editing. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 20:01, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not harassing anyone, at this point you are harassing me. This other "editor" thinks he owns this platform.  Well I will file the appropriate reports to counter this harassment.GolfEditorUSA (talk) 20:04, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * On Wikipedia, harassment is taken very seriously indeed, and I recommend you lodge a formal complaint at the administrators' noticeboard. There, everyone's behavior will be scrutinised, and an appropriate award of punishment may be made. For the record, one of the words in this last sentence is slightly more important than the others. ——  SN  54129  20:12, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm filing all the complaints I can ..... following the rules ...... GolfEditorUSA (talk) 20:15, 18 March 2020 (UTC)


 * At the moment you have filed no complaints whatsoever. What you have done and continue to do is place templates on another editors page. That is harassment and is not following the rules. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 20:23, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

I will file complaints on my time, not yours. GolfEditorUSA (talk) 20:30, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Continuation of discussion from ANI
If you have any further questions, feel free to ask them here.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 21:23, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

No worries, but let's be consistent, huh?

How can these links be allowed to stay? See these so called "editors" get on a power trip and think they own Wikipedia and then practice vendettas against anyone they don't like and are totally inconsistent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic - on this page:

These all have Google AdSense and/or subscriptions: https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus https://www.bmj.com/coronavirus https://www.cell.com/2019-nCOV

GolfEditorUSA (talk) 21:40, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, and they are also highly respected sources that would should expect to see on an article like that. That a website makes money from ads is not the issue. Rather the issue that you (and anyone else) are directly benefiting by adding these sources yourself (WP:COI). That's why I suggest you let other editors with no stake, benefit, or incentive make the decision. If someone who owns or works for The Lancet or Cell were to be adding these links, we'd be having the same discussion.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 21:43, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah I see. The problem is that there are literally thousands of examples like this, and these companies could pay anyone, even someone looking like an "editor", to add their links. Yet folks like GreenMeansGo have no clue and just pick out folks to mess with and then hide behind their "editor" labels. GolfEditorUSA (talk) 21:49, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The sites that you are linking to are not the type of site that we would allow even if a third party linked them. They are not from established respectable organizations which provide educationally useful material. They are sites which offer little to nothing other than thin veneer of what seems like content, so that you can drive people to your Amazon links and encourage them to donate from your Paypal account.
 * That you are attempting to profit off of the work of Wikipedia volunteers is objectionable. That you are attempting to profit off of both that and an impending public health crisis is vile. If that is your only purpose here, them please take your websites and your personal outrage and take them elsewhere, because they are not welcome here.  G M G  talk  21:59, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. 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:. Bbb23 (talk) 21:53, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

I have no intention of asking for your permission to edit a site ran by goons and thugs. The fact is you have rules that you apply on a whim, your site is FULL of links to commercial sites, and it probably is the case that "editors" get kickbacks to allow some links and delete others. I'll make more of this in other forums. This place is like a fascist ran propaganda machine. Sad. GolfEditorUSA (talk) 21:58, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, no one ever told you links to commercial sites were never acceptable. Links to commercial sites are sometimes acceptable, it depends on the specifics of what the site is about, where they are added, why they are added etc. One thing is for sure, as with 99.9% of the internet, spamming your own website is not. Try this in some other site and there's a good chance you'll be dealt with a lot more harshly. Most of the internet detests spam, I'm surprised this is news to anyone who has used the internet for any length of time. Frankly, I have barely looked at your website but I regard is as clear nonsense and not worth relying on for anything. This is not unique to me, again pretty much the whole internet utterly detests spam, and the more your spam your website the more people are going to hate it. It's true that some editors are able to escape our attention and spam websites anyway. Such editors are dealt with when they come to our attention. Given the nature of the internet, our strict privacy policy, the volunteer nature of most of our work etc, it's not always easy to detect editors acting inappropriately. But when they are discovered, any editor spamming websites for pay is dealt with extremely harshly, at it's a violation of the terms of use of this site as well as our policy. Nil Einne (talk) 06:30, 19 March 2020 (UTC)