User talk:Wendywoowoo

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Hello, Wendywoowoo, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions 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! VViking Talk Edits 13:45, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
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October 2019
Hello, I'm Majavah. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Cremation have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Majavah (t/c) 13:43, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with... you have rejected changes that I have made to links that are embedded in the article on Cremation. You have said it is because I appear to be posting promotional links. In fact, the links that are already there are completely irrelevant and purely direct readers to a commercial website, not an educational one. Whereas, our organisation is a not-for-profit organisation (www.cremation.org.uk), established in 1874 to educate the public on cremation. We do not 'sell' cremation or cremation products (unlike the company whose links are included at present). It does not therefore make sense to disallow the amendments I have made on the basis you have given as I am trying to remove a promotional link and replace it with an educational one. Please would you look again at the amendment I was proposing and the existing links and consider allowing the amendment.

Wendywoowoo (talk) 15:12, 14 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Note: I would like to point to Special:Diff/926167858. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:06, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * You don't have to have a commercial interest or be for-profit in order to promote something. Wikipedia treats non-profits no differently that for-profits. It is a conflict of interest for you to add links about your own organization; you should not do this without discussion on the article talk page.  Please review the conflict of interest policy for more information. You should also review the paid editing policy. 331dot (talk) 19:07, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , welcome to Wikipedia.
 * As requested, I had a look at your contributions, but I was negatively surprised by the disruption caused by the edits. References document the source of the accompanying text, and we prefer archived accurate documentation to promotional replacements. I think I have now restored all of the overwritten references. See Special:Diff/926167858 for an example: Instead of overwriting the reference, I have provided an archived version from the Internet Archive to rescue the citation.
 * Wikipedia is not a platform for promotion, neither by commercial companies nor by non-profit organizations. As you are referring to the organization as "our organisation", this may be a case of paid editing without proper disclosure. You must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. You have neither done so on the talk page of the affected articles, nor in all edit summaries, nor on your user page. I have provided more detailled, standardized advice in the section below.
 * Please do not add any links to cremation.org.uk to articles anymore, neither as references, nor as external links. You appear to have a strong conflict of interest; the link additions are not considered to be "educational". If you would like to request changes for which you have a conflict of interest, please do so on the talk page of the respective article. To open the talk page, you can click "Talk" above any article. Afterwards, click "New section", then follow the instructions at Template:Request edit. Experienced volunteer reviewers will then have a look and implement the change if it is actually an improvement to the article. Otherwise, they will provide useful feedback about the reason for not having done so.
 * Accounts that are solely used to promote an organization in the way you did are often blocked from editing. As you have been warned about this twice, please consider this to be a.
 * If you would like to contribute to Wikipedia in ways unrelated to your organization, the Task Center might provide some enjoyable ideas.
 * Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:37, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

November 2019
Please stop adding external links to your organization's website to Wikipedia articles. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

Someone else will likely answer the above help request while I'm busy removing the promotional additions. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:46, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Done, see my longer response above. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:38, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello Wendywoowoo. 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 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:Wendywoowoo. 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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:06, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

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~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:59, 25 November 2019 (UTC)