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VViking
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15:26, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Frost. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of
your recent contributions—specifically
this edit to
Birmingham Gay Village—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the
sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the
Teahouse or the
Help desk. Thanks.
Frost
15:30, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.
JBW (
talk)
15:32, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Forget that. This is evidently a vandalism-only account. JBW ( talk) 15:35, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello Birmingham Shopping Centre. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Birmingham, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Birmingham Shopping Centre. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Birmingham Shopping Centre|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. --
VViking
Talk
Edits
15:26, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Frost. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of
your recent contributions—specifically
this edit to
Birmingham Gay Village—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the
sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the
Teahouse or the
Help desk. Thanks.
Frost
15:30, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.
JBW (
talk)
15:32, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Forget that. This is evidently a vandalism-only account. JBW ( talk) 15:35, 23 July 2024 (UTC)