User talk:Razoner

April 2024
Hello Razoner. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Cityscape Global, 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:Razoner. 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. Annh07 (talk) 08:41, 14 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Annh07,
 * I can confirm that I am not being compensated, directly or indirectly, for any edits.
 * Thanks,
 * Razoner Razoner (talk) 11:56, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Razoner, you have re-added the content that User:Cityscapeglobal previously added. Your account was created a few days after User:Cityscapeglobal was blocked. This surprising coincidence is why I suspect you are abusing multiple accounts (a sockpuppet investigation will result in all related accounts being blocked).
 * If you have no real connection with Cityscape Global (and User:Cityscapeglobal), please do not add promotional material to the article. Persistent attempts to add promotional material to Cityscape Global will only get you into trouble. Please read WP:ADS, WP:NOTADV. Thank you. Annh07 (talk) 16:38, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I assure you that I have no connection to Cityscape Global or User:Cityscapeglobal. I apologize for any confusion caused by the similarities in our editing patterns. Moving forward, I would appreciate guidance on the specific areas deemed 'promotional' to ensure I avoid including such content in the future. Razoner (talk) 16:45, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Cityscape Global, 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:Razoner, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Annh07 (talk) 08:51, 14 April 2024 (UTC)