66.28.21.102

February 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Three Dog Night, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Three Dog Night was changed by 66.28.21.102 (u) (t) making a minor change adding "!!!" on 2009-02-24T19:45:06+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 19:45, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

September 2020

Hello 66.28.21.102. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Turner Construction, 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:66.28.21.102. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=66.28.21.102|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. Turner.demarc.cogentco.com Graywalls (talk) 19:03, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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Hello, I'm Graywalls. I noticed that you removed topically-relevant content from Turner Construction. However, Wikipedia is not censored. Please do not remove or censor information that directly relates to the subject of the article. If the content in question involves images, you have the option to configure Wikipedia to hide images that you may find offensive. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Whitewashing things you don't want. Graywalls (talk) 19:54, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Turner Construction, 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:66.28.21.102, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=66.28.21.102|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Special:Diff/980853654 Ongoing reputation management censorship by connected contributor. Graywalls (talk) 21:35, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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@GeneralNotability:. Ongoing whitewashing... Graywalls (talk) 21:38, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

You still have not responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. continuing to edit, still no explanation on talk page Graywalls (talk) 22:08, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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Graywalls, handled. IP, you have been partially blocked from editing Turner Construction; you may request edits on the talk page if needed. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:45, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

@GeneralNotability:, wonderful. Was it locked against account creation? As soon as semi-protection expired, a freshly made account came along to add a flattering spin to the lead which seems to be an odd way to start using Wikipedia. Graywalls (talk) 20:51, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Graywalls, account creation isn't blocked (since it's only a partial block) but if I understand things right, anyone editing from this IP should have been partially blocked as well. Of course, this new user could be operating from a different IP - if disruption continues I can semi the page or just hand out blocks. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:53, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing from certain pages (Turner Construction) for a period of 1 year for Continued conflict-of-interest and promotional editing after repeatedly being informed of our policies. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  GeneralNotability (talk) 23:44, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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