User talk:Smartieschoco

Welcome!
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June 2018
Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Mediacorp, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   09:06, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

August 2018
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Mediacorp, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. Matthew_hk  t  c  07:00, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Mediacorp. --Bankster (talk) 09:48, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Smartieschoco. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Mediacorp, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Matthew_hk  t  c  14:59, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Matthew_hk  t  c  15:02, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

August 2018
Hello. I wanted to let you know that in your recent contributions to Mediacorp, you seemed to act as if you were the owner of the page. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia. This means that editors do not own articles, including ones they create, and should respect the work of their fellow contributors. If you create or edit an article, remember that others are free to change its content. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:26, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Black & Decker
Sie Thoo's wife asked:   Eh! Aren't you at BLACK & DECKER there? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.134.133.33 (talk) 09:56, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Thrillion Ah
Thrillion ah!

Te Bangkali Ne-Ne (JDN 18) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.134.133.33 (talk) 10:12, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

MediaCorp and related articles
Hi, I'm writing to you because I saw you're being paid by MediaCorp to edit articles related to that conglomerate. I'm informing you that these articles are badly written, filled with advertisement writing and, due to this, I'm starting rewriting them from scratch. We don't accept any form of advertisement in Wikipedia, as we're not a commercial website like LinkedIn. I hope you understand, cheers. --Bankster (talk) 07:31, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Undisclosed paid editing
Hello Smartieschoco. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Mediacorp, 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:Smartieschoco. 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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:03, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * He was kind of disclosed the COI on my talk page (Special:Diff/855862768) but not tagged on his user page in User:Smartieschoco. Matthew_hk   t  c  15:11, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


 * I have taken the liberty of placing the paid template on your userpage; you are now in compliance with the policy. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:23, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

paid editing
According to paid editing policy, you are allowed to propose edit from talk page (Talk:Mediacorp) and made uncontroversial edit. However, your edits are controversial, which requires discussion thread to ask people to accept or not, or straight up WP:PEACOCK. Matthew hk (talk) 16:09, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Mediacorp
You've been warned several times not to add puffery like this as you are a paid editor working for Mediacorp, representing a conflict of interest. Next time you do this again, you'll end reported on WP:AIV and blocked. --Bankster (talk) 19:25, 9 July 2019 (UTC)