User talk:Kodos444

February 2020
Hello Kodos444. 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:Kodos444. 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. Bilby (talk) 20:54, 25 February 2020 (UTC)


 * I am not being paid, either directly or indirectly for my edits. I also want to clarify that I made a couple of minor edits, before seeing this message. Kodos444 (talk) 23:50, 26 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Your edits certain have the appearance of a paid editor, but I guess that could be accidental. The thing is, paid editing is not banned under the Terms of Use, but you are required to disclose paid editing when you engage in it as per the instructions above. I'm not going to push the issue, but if you make paid edits in the future, it would be best if you handled the disclosure requirements at the same time. - Bilby (talk) 10:31, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


 * If you don't mind me asking, could you help me understand why shouldn't BVOP certification be added in the list? I saw that the website itself was blacklisted because of repeated spamming. What about the certification itself? Kodos444 (talk) 21:28, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know whether or not it is suitable for inclusion. - Bilby (talk) 02:28, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

March 2020
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines. 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:. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:35, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

This request is currently being processed by at least two administrators. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:49, 8 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Kodos444, why you removed your profile from Upwork just after you were blocked? GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 02:45, 9 March 2020 (UTC)