Mamalionesse

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Hello, Mamalionesse, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Asparagopsis. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Laterthanyouthink (talk) 21:02, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for such a warm welcome. I have now read through all the helpful pages, and look forward to contributing on subjects that might interest me, as well as copyediting any pages I read. Mamalionesse (talk) 02:31, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

No worries, and thank you for taking the time to read the links and improve your existing contributions. It's an automatically-generated template (one of several, but the one I like best), but we do like to welcome editors who look as if they are contributing usefully. I'll just also note for you WP:ES, to indicate that if you have anything substantial to write about your edit or discuss further, it's best done on the talk page. I hope you enjoy your experience and stay on Wikipedia for a long time! Laterthanyouthink (talk) 08:27, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

February 2024

Hello Mamalionesse. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Asparagopsis, 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 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 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:Mamalionesse. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mamalionesse|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. Thanks, Framawiki (please notify me when you reply) 13:50, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello Framawiki. You are indeed mistaken. I am not being paid for any edits I make or made. I discovered Asparagopsis, notably its application in reducing ruminant burps, quite by accident, and fell down a rabbit hole. As I recall, the existing references misrepresented the research, as well as the market at the time. I corrected that, based on what I had read.

I fall down many rabbit holes, but not all of them are appropriate for Wikipedia, or provide me with information that would add value to what already exists on Wikipedia. My latest is mocktails. My previous one was Barbie. Many Wikipedia articles are very well written. The Asparagopsis ones were not. I hope this puts your mind at rest. Have a good day, Mamalionesse @Framawiki: Mamalionesse (talk) 04:18, 15 February 2024 (UTC)