User talk:Spots11

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Hello, Spots11, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Cardno, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 14:47, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi SkyeGazer 512, we have revised our proposed content to ensure it complies with the guidelines outlined below. What is the best method to have this content reviewed to ensure it is compliant prior to publishing? Should it all be posted within the Sand Box? Thank you. (Spots11 (talk) 01:54, 11 December 2018 (UTC))

October 2018
Hello Spots11. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, 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:Spots11. 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. SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 12:54, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi SkyGazer 512, as mentioned I am updating this page on behalf of Cardno, and it does fall under paid content {{paid|user=Spots11|employer=Cardno|client=Cardno}.

I would like to edit the content, using the content listed below on the history section.

(Redacted copyright violation, see below) -SkyGazer 512

Spots11 (talk) 06:41, 31 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello Spots! First of all, the Paid template should go on your user page, just put the same code,, into it, but remember to put two brackets on either side, which you didn't do above. I'll let you know if you did it right or wrong. Thanks for being able to cooperate by disclosing this and being willing to discuss changes! The problem here is, the post you just made was again, a copyvio of https://www.cardno.com/about-us/who-we-are/our-history/. It was directly copied and pasted from that URL which has an all rights reserved policy, with the only modifications being replacing a few "we"s with "Cardno." Please understand that copyright violations are taken very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. All content based off of a source which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia must be written completely in your own words. Thanks, and let me know if you have any further questions.-- SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 13:18, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi SkyGazer 512, following my note in December, we have revised our proposed content to ensure it complies with the guidelines outlined above. What is the best method to have this content reviewed to ensure it is compliant prior to publishing? Should it all be posted within the Sand Box? Thank you Spots11 (talk) 04:20, 6 February 2019 (UTC)