User talk:Nick de Ridder

Welcome!
Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 17:35, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

February 2024
This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, as you did at History of bitcoin, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. Peaceray (talk) 17:36, 14 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Why do you think it is spam? There was a broken link in the page and I replaced it for a link to a source that got the information covered that their was information about. Nick de Ridder (talk) 12:03, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello Nick de Ridder. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Bitonic, 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 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 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:Nick de Ridder. 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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:02, 20 February 2024 (UTC)


 * So what code do i have to type to mention I am an employee? Because the site tells me to mention I am an connected contributor instead of an employee Nick de Ridder (talk) 13:11, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't know, since I don't know the exact nature of your relationship with the subject(s) you're editing about. But please note that this is construed broadly; eg. (and I quote here from WP:PAID) "Interns are considered employees for this purpose. If they are directed or expected to edit Wikipedia as part of an internship, they must disclose." -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:23, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay I will try it on the dutch version for sure! And when I will translate it to english will it be accapted in the way I just made it? Nick de Ridder (talk) 13:36, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * In order to publish an article we need to see evidence of notability, which in most cases means significant coverage of the subject in multiple secondary sources (books, newspapers, magazines, TV or radio programmes, etc.) that are both reliable and entirely independent of the subject. The draft content should then be primarily composed by summarising what such sources have said.
 * The draft currently cites primary sources, mainly the organisation's own website. So no, this draft would not be accepted, even in English. (It may have other issues as well, but I can't be more specific as I don't read Dutch and haven't put it through a machine translation.) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:50, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It is about the organisation and what role the organisation played during the early phases of bitcoin. Because Bitonic is one of the first company's that sold Bitcoin, so it took an important role in the history. Nick de Ridder (talk) 13:58, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I just added valuable content from research company's and university's. And I translated everything to english. Let me know what you think.! Nick de Ridder (talk) 14:17, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Bitonic (February 20)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DoubleGrazing was:

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:28, 20 February 2024 (UTC)