User talk:KolShar

Your submission at Articles for creation: Toru H.Okabe (July 28)
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Bogger (talk) 15:36, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Toru H.Okabe has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Toru H.Okabe. Thanks!  DGG ( talk ) 22:02, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

August 2021
Hello KolShar. 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:KolShar. 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. PRAXIDICAE🌈 15:20, 18 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello Praxidicae. Thank you for notifying me about this potential issue. I would like to state that I'm not being directly or indirectly compensated for this, and neither is my employer. I have created/edited this page in honor of the professional relationship the subject of this page has shared with my employer over the past several years. If you have recommendations or suggestions on any other manner in which I need to disclose anything, please let me know. KolShar (talk) 10:10, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

April 2022
As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Christian M. Ringle, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:KolShar, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:53, 29 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I have no financial stake in promoting Dr. Ringle's profile and am not being compensated for these edits. KolShar (talk) 11:59, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Then please make an appropriate disclosure of your (very evident) conflict of interest. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:42, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
 * @Justlettersandnumbers Hello, thank you for notifying me about this potential issue and I apologize for the delay in my response. I would like to state that I'm not being directly or indirectly compensated for creating/editing this page and neither is my employer. I have created/edited this page in honor of the professional relationship the subject of this page shares with my employer's partner company. If you have recommendations or suggestions on any other manner in which I need to disclose anything, please let me know and I would be happy to do so. KolShar (talk) 07:23, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. If you're editing on behalf of your employer you are regarded as a paid editor and should make an appropriate disclosure before doing anything else. This is a requirement under our Terms of Use, and is obligatory. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 07:44, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking the time to explaining this. I would like to disclose that I have edited this page in honor of the professional relationship the subject of this page shares with my employer Cactus Communications (https://cactusglobal.com/) and Kudos (which partners with Cactus Communications) (https://info.growkudos.com/about). The page has been edited as per Wikipedia’s guidelines to include updated relevant information regarding the subject’s work and achievements. Could you please let me know if you have any other suggestions regarding disclosure? Thank you again. KolShar (talk) 10:45, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * @Justlettersandnumbers Hello, hope you're doing well. Since I have now made an appropriate disclosure regarding my employer and subject, I will now revert edits to the updated page. I hope this is ok. If you have any suggestions regarding disclosure, please let me know. Thank you! KolShar (talk) 11:13, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * @ Pavlor Hello Pavlor. I noticed your comment on our edits regarding gaining consensus. Please note the above conversation with @Justlettersandnumbers in which I have made a complete disclosure of my edits. Just to reiterate, I have disclosed that I have edited this page in honor of the professional relationship the subject of this page shares with my employer Cactus Communications ( https://cactusglobal.com/ ) and Kudos (which partners with Cactus Communications) ( https://info.growkudos.com/about ). The page has been edited as per Wikipedia’s guidelines to include updated relevant information regarding the subject’s work and achievements. Moreover, all sources used are neutral and verifiable. Could you please let me know if you have any other suggestions on gaining consensus? Please let me know as soon as possible, so I can update this page to include all relevant details of the subject. Thank you for your help!  KolShar (talk) 12:53, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Er, no, KolShar – please actually read our pages on WP:COI and WP:PAID editing and take notice of what they say. As an editor in both categories, you are very strongly discouraged from making any edit to that article; in practice, very often that "discouragement" takes the form of immediate reversion or removal of such edits. You are permitted to request changes on the talk-page, adding a request edit template if you like. Since your proposed text has already been removed a number of times, for it to be re-added you will need to reach WP:CONSENSUS on the talk-page through discussion with other editors. You should also read our policy on WP:EDIT-WARRING, which is relevant here. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:35, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The article talk page is a right place to discuss your proposed changes - step by step. Start with small uncontroversial edits. Note refbombing is a red flag for most Wikipedia editors and bibliography section concerning works by the atricle subject far longer than the rest of the article is also not a good idea (there may be exceptions). Pavlor (talk) 05:44, 8 July 2022 (UTC)