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Username same as a book publisher
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, " Solophi ", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. -- 65.92.247.66 (talk) 05:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Please show evidence of registered company in that name. 193.237.164.43 (talk) 09:19, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * In this edit, this user listed "Solophi" as the publisher of a book, which triggered the warning above. The entry "publisher=Solophi" appears to have been an error, however.--Srleffler (talk) 18:21, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * So, this is an advert for penguin books? Penguin Books 193.237.164.43 (talk) 18:46, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * And this looks like an advert for Harry Potter books Harry Potter 193.237.164.43 (talk) 18:48, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Please clarify how you reference a book without mentioning the book and providing a reference to prove the book exists 193.237.164.43 (talk) 18:49, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Penguin Books and Harry Potter are both notable topics in their own right; suitable subjects for an encyclopedia article. The articles should be written in an encyclopedic style, and with a neutral point of view—explicitly not promoting the company or the book series.
 * Yes, when you reference a book you mention it and provide details. The issue here is that this book is not suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia. The book is self-published, not produced by a reputable publisher. It also doesn't seem on the surface like the book is likely to be relevant to the astrophysics article to which it was added. It doesn't seem to be an astrophysics textbook or monograph. It doesn't seem to be a science book at all.
 * The concern that was raised about "advertising" is related to your motives in adding it. Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but editors must be here for the purpose of building an encyclopedia. Any edit whose purpose is to promote something, whether a product or a website, or an idea, is outside the scope of what is permitted. In particular, editing with a conflict of interest is not permitted. The fact that Solophi's only edit was to add a reference to a self-published book (with "publisher=Solophi" in the template) leads us to believe that Solophi is likely the author of the book or is connected to the author, and that the purpose of the edit was to promote the book rather than to improve the encyclopedia. That is not permitted, and would not be even if the book were published by a reputable publisher and clearly relevant to the article.--Srleffler (talk) 05:08, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024
Hello Solophi. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Hawking star, 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:Solophi. 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. -- 65.92.247.66 (talk) 05:07, 7 January 2024 (UTC)


 * , are you the same person as ? And are you Richard K. Page, the author of the book "Exploring the Divine" ? -- 65.92.247.66 (talk) 01:28, 8 January 2024 (UTC)