User talk:Zsick

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April 2018
Hello, I'm Donner60. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Virginia, Minnesota, 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. Donner60 (talk) 22:14, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

September 2020
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Virginia, Minnesota. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted. Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:45, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
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 * If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, please seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Hello Zsick. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Virginia, Minnesota, 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:Zsick. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:05, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Please take note of WP:COI. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:05, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I assure you that your baseless attacks on my credibility are not appropriate. If you have specific concerns with the accuracy of the content I contributed, please state them. I do not wish to engage in personal exchanges, and your behavior appears to violate Wikipedia policy, as previously stated. Zsick (talk) 18:43, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * To address your concern about me having made only a single contribution to Wikipedia: it is because I do not want to spend time making additional contributions until I understand how and why other editors are able to reverse my edits, apparently without cause. Once I know that people will not be able to delete my contributions based on their subjective opinions, I will become a regular contributor. Since I have - against my wishes - explained my behavior, can you explain why you are so passionately opposed to referring to something as relevant to the public interest? When a town with 8,000 people in it has a higher crime rate than major cities like Minneapolis and Chicago, it is absolutely worth including in the lead of the town's article. Though unflattering for local officials, it is among the most noteworthy facts about Virginia, Minnesota, as I have stated multiple times when justifying my contribution.

Now, again, if you have concerns about the accuracy of the information, please make them known. Otherwise, you are exactly the reason why I haven't drawn on my expertise to make more contributions to Wikipedia, which I have been using and supporting financially for over a decade. My goal is to become an active contributor, and I hope your future communications will represent a more experienced editor helping a new editor get started rather than engaging in personal attacks on my credibility or baseless attacks on the value of my contributions. Zsick (talk) 19:12, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
 * The direct link is Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.  78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 16:54, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

3RR
Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you do not violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Canterbury Tail talk 17:22, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

September 2020
Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Such edits are disruptive, and may appear to other editors to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Aoi (青い) (talk) 18:43, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know what you're referring to. To my knowledge I haven't deleted any comments, and I don't know what you mean by "experiment." Zsick (talk) 19:37, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I am referring to this edit you made here, where you reverted another editor's comment on a thread at ANI. Aoi (青い) (talk) 19:39, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I honestly did not know I did that. I apologize and will be more careful in the future. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Zsick (talk) 20:02, 14 September 2020 (UTC)