User talk:Tcogginpr

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Tcogginpr! Thank you for your contributions. I am Troutfarm27 and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Troutfarm27 (Talk) 19:43, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
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August 2020
Hello Tcogginpr. The nature of your edits 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:Tcogginpr. 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. Praxidicae (talk) 20:17, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to LendingPoint, 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:Tcogginpr, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. If you continue to edit without adequately disclosing, you will be blocked Praxidicae (talk) 21:19, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * No, go make the edit request on the talk page as per WP:Edit request. Praxidicae (talk) 21:32, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I've adequately explained to you that you cannot edit the article directly. Make your request on the talk page. Praxidicae (talk) 21:36, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

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 * Since you appear to have deleted your disclosure, I advise you disclose again otherwise you will be blocked for violating our terms of use. Praxidicae (talk) 21:50, 14 August 2020 (UTC)