User talk:MAdkins164

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Please sign your name on talk pages and votes by typing four tildes ( ~ ); our software automatically converts it to your username and the date. We're so glad you're here! Meatsgains (talk) 01:52, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Just checking
Is all this material on this page and your user page about you of your boss? If so, you need to check WP:COI and WP:PAID and make a declaration. You edits at the article Bitcoin Center NYC seem highly inappropriate. Replacing "sparsely attended" with "passionately attended" is a problem. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:27, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

I am not a paid author. I am just adding more content to this article and trying to accurately source the article.
 * Could you expand on your connection to Bitcoin Center NYC and Nick Spanos? -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 20:49, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

I have no connection.
 * Then could you explain why your sole contributions to this project have been to promote Nick Spanos and Bitcoin Center NYC? Also, I'm not sure why you keep putting {} brackets around your replies.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:38, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Blockchain and Crypto
. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:33, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Paid editing and conflicts of interest
Hello MAdkins164. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:MAdkins164. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:36, 5 July 2018 (UTC)