MarkoMetal

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Henry Metal

Hi there. If you're getting paid or receiving other inducements in connection with Draft:Henry Metal, then you're required to disclose that. You can do it here. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 16:11, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello. No, not really. I just like metal music and in only one year or something he has become very popular. I did see that he was deleted before once. Did it have something to do with the paying thing? I am improving the page today but if you think i should not, just tell me. MarkoMetal (talk) 07:22, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, exactly--the deletion of the last version was related to our paid contributions policy. If you're just a fan and don't have a conflict of interest then you're welcome to continue developing the article. I would suggest that you familiarize yourself with our verifiability policy and make sure that the content is supported by reliable sources. I'm not an expert on music sources so I can't help you much on whether the sources you're citing are reliable. If you need help on that sort of stuff you can search the archives at WP:RSN or ask for help on a forum like WP:WikiProject Metal, WP:WikiProject Music, or WP:TEA. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 17:54, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

No, no conflict of interest. Do we have a lot of people getting paid to create wikipedia pages? I'll make sure to support the content with reliable sources, obviously. Thank you for your help.MarkoMetal (talk) 08:29, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, sadly, it's a major problem and there have been a lot of news stories about it the last few years. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 18:39, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, MarkoMetal. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 15:41, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 15:41, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Paid editing?

Hello MarkoMetal. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:MarkoMetal. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MarkoMetal|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:36, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion, as you did at [[:Special:Diff/858523568]]. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

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 ~~~~}}.  SmartSE (talk) 20:04, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Henry Metal

Hello, MarkoMetal. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Henry Metal".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 10:12, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Lisa S. Johnson

Hello, MarkoMetal. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Lisa S. Johnson".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:58, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "RfC: Wikiprofessionals Inc, and paid editing". Thank you. Nil Einne (talk) 17:28, 11 July 2020 (UTC)