User talk:Kevin Keator

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Kevin Keator, good luck, and have fun. Masum Reza 📞 22:29, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

July 2019
Hello Kevin Keator. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Nik Halik, 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:Kevin Keator. 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. TheAwesome Hwyh  23:23, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

@TheAwesomeHywh I don't have a financial interest, nor do I work for Nik Halik or his organization. I was there with him at the Volcano and snapped the photo I uploaded, it seemed relevant but is not reflective of any sort of financial interest on my part. I changed the photo out to just him, removing myself, if that helps clarify. I'm new to Wikipedia and am still figuring out the process. If needed feel free to remove anything I've made any mistakes with.

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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:36, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Kevin Keator/sandbox


A tag has been placed on User:Kevin Keator/sandbox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

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Your draft article, User:Kevin Keator/sandbox


Hello, Kevin Keator. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "sandbox".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Minorax (talk) 15:56, 5 March 2020 (UTC)