Internetremovals

January 2020

Hello Internetremovals. 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:Internetremovals. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Internetremovals|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. moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 19:53, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Minor

On a minor note, please use the "minor edit" check box only for truly superficial, non-controversial changes, like fixing spelling and other typographical errors. Removing content is not minor. See WP:MINOR. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 20:07, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Demet Mutlu article

Please understand that Wikipedia is not a means of promotion. See the section above this one regarding paid editing on Wikipedia, and why it is strongly discouraged. I have undone your edit as it was decidedly non-neutral. We have a policy that articles need to be written in a neutral tone. Further, the image you removed from the article is a perfectly valid image. If Ms. Mutlu wishes to provide a different image, Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials offers guidance on how to proceed.

Due to your conflict of interest, I strongly encourage you to suggest changes to the article on the article's talk page, rather than editing the article itself. If you have questions, let me know. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 20:08, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Internetremovals. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Nick Moyes (talk) 20:19, 22 January 2020 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).

January 2020

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In that reason, you must:

• Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
• Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page. kingboyk (talk) 20:51, 22 January 2020 (UTC)