User talk:Osduoa

July 2021
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Professor Sangita Srivastava. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Longhair\talk 21:19, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to remove maintenance templates without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at Professor Sangita Srivastava, you may be blocked from editing. Longhair\talk 21:25, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello Osduoa. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Professor Sangita Srivastava, 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:Osduoa. 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. Longhair\talk 21:25, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove maintenance templates from Wikipedia articles without resolving the problem that the template refers to. Longhair\talk 21:27, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Professor Sangita Srivastava, 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:Osduoa, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Longhair\talk 21:29, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistently making disruptive edits. 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:. Longhair\talk 21:33, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

I am not being directly or indirectly being paid for the changes. Osduoa (talk) 21:36, 2 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Your username contains uoa, which I assume is related to the University of Allahabad. Regardless of your paid or unpaid editing status, you've been blocked for persistently removing maintenance templates from an article despite many prior warnings not to do so. -- Longhair\talk 21:38, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Blocked as a sockpuppet
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts&#32;as a sockpuppet of User:University of Allahabad&#32;per the evidence presented at Sockpuppet investigations/University of Allahabad. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted. 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:. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:48, 16 July 2021 (UTC)