User talk:Nevermind-Punk

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Ben Goertzel, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Dear Jeff,

many thanks for your message. I'm not sure what is meant by affiliation with the project. I'm a big fan of Dr. Goertzel and he is withou any doubt the CEO and Founder of SingularityNET. So, as it is, the page is utterly incorrect.

It was mentioning SingularityNET untile few edits ago, and then for some reason the reference has been removed..

What can I do?
 * How do you know he is "the CEO and Founder of SingularityNET"? See WP:42.  — Jeff G. ツ 17:34, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

There is an infinite amount of sources, coverage, talks and news about it :) Including a whole feature by the NYT and Joe Rogan. Nevermind-Punk (talk) 17:41, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020
Hello, I'm MarkH21. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Ben Goertzel, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — MarkH21talk 14:59, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

June 2020
Hello Nevermind-Punk. 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.

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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:Nevermind-Punk. 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. David Gerard (talk) 07:56, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi David, thanks for your message. I do not have affiliation with the dr. Goertzel, however, I'm a big fan of his work since the SingularityNEt project. I'm part of a community of supporters but none of us is getting paid. In fact, media appearances have been there for years, and were most definitely not introduced by me. So one thing is to belive that media appearances are superfluous for an encyclopedia (which might be a valid argument if supported by evidence) but say that the official source, is not a valid source because it's primary, in relation to a media appearance, it is most definitely not a valid argument.