User talk:TheDonsAreTrash

April 2021
Hello, I'm Rdp060707. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Notre Dame College Prep, 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. Rdp060707&#124;talk 02:00, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

May 2021


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Paid/COI
Hello TheDonsAreTrash. 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:TheDonsAreTrash. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 18:58, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Not being paid
I am not being paid.

Regardless of if you are being paid or not, you cannot add edits that appear to be promotional or Advertising. Next you should be aware of Bold Revert Discuss cycle. after a bold edit is reverted the Status quo should remain while a discussion is started instead of Edit-Warring, and it should be resolved before reinstating the edit, after a needed consesus is formed to keep it. You should also be aware of our policy on adding non-notable entities to a list that should only include notable entries. A person added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to the list. Finally you said you are not being paid to edit. The question then becomes do you have a Conflict of Interest. If you have any relationship with the subject of the article that is preventing you from editing with a Neutral point of view you need to follow the Conflict of interest policy you should probably not be editing the article directly. Continued edit warring and entering unsourced or poorly sourced information especially of a promotional nature may lead to limitations put on your ability to edit Wikipedia. Kind Regards -- VViking Talk Edits 13:32, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

not a bad name
It simply isn’t

May 2021
 Your account has been blocked indefinitely because the chosen username is a clear violation of our username policy – it is obviously profane, threatens, attacks or impersonates another person, or suggests that you do not intend to contribute positively to the encyclopedia (see our blocking and username policies for more information). We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, but users are not allowed to edit with inappropriate usernames and we do not tolerate 'bad faith' editing such as trolling or other disruptive behavior. If you think there are good reasons why these don't describe your account, or why you should be unblocked, you are welcome to appeal this block – read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text at the end of your user talk page. 331dot (talk) 16:01, 5 May 2021 (UTC)