User talk:Hockey.CA

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August 2020
Hello Hockey.CA. 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:Hockey.CA. 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. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 00:19, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles, or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates. Otherwise, it may be difficult to create consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 16:33, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to remove Miscellany for deletion notices or comments from articles and Articles for deletion pages, as you did at Draft:Dennis Michelon, you may be blocked from editing. ''The MFD tag has now been removed three times. Removing the MFD tag has no effect on the deletion discussion, which is continuing.'' Robert McClenon (talk) 16:34, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove an Miscellany for deletion notice or a comment from an AfD discussion, as you did at Draft:Dennis Michelon. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:38, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Blocked for sockpuppetry
You have been blocked temporarily from editing for abusing multiple accounts&#32;per the evidence presented at Sockpuppet investigations/Hockey.CA. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. 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:. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:16, 2 September 2020 (UTC)