User talk:Hawkeye50035

Recent edits to Bondurant, Iowa
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you removed some content from Bondurant, Iowa without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 04:24, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2021
Hello Hawkeye50035. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Bondurant, Iowa, 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:Hawkeye50035. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:18, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

I am not being compensated for my edits. I am simply involved in the Bondurant community and corrected obvious mistakes such as terms expiring in 2019 when clearly it is now 2021. Additionally the Mayor ProTem listed is no longer on the city council. Hawkeye50035 (talk) 17:28, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * You said here that you are on city council. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:39, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Yes, can I not make corrections if I’m on the council? Hawkeye50035 (talk) 18:56, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Please read the notice above. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:58, 27 February 2021 (UTC)