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David Gerard (
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12:09, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
- Dear David Gerard, as you can read, there has been a scam by OneFootball impacting thousands of people. Ledger Insights report that scam and we decided, many of us, to put that to let know to everyone that OneFootball is a scamming company.
- For your information, Wikipedia must respect the law in force in Germany regarding freedom of the press. In this regard, we require you to return the message that you have removed within 48 hours. We would like to remind you that you may be subject to several complaints for violations of press freedom in accordance with the laws in Germany but also in Italy, France and the United Kingdom, countries where many people have been defrauded. Finally, I remind you that I reserve the right to file a complaint against you for defamation in light of the comments you may make about me, considering me to be a "paid advocates" and that I can therefore file an appeal with United Kingdom, country of your location, but also in Germany. I remain at your disposal for any questions concerning the OneFootball scam or concerning the proceedings which will be brought against you if necessary.
- Best regards,
- Luck08776
Luck08776 (
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23:40, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is a private website; you have zero inherent rights to edit here. Any further threats of legal action will result in your talk page access being revoked.-- Ponyo bons mots 00:00, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Luck08776. 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 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:Luck08776. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Luck08776|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.
David Gerard (
talk)
12:09, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
- Dear David Gerard, as you can read, there has been a scam by OneFootball impacting thousands of people. Ledger Insights report that scam and we decided, many of us, to put that to let know to everyone that OneFootball is a scamming company.
- For your information, Wikipedia must respect the law in force in Germany regarding freedom of the press. In this regard, we require you to return the message that you have removed within 48 hours. We would like to remind you that you may be subject to several complaints for violations of press freedom in accordance with the laws in Germany but also in Italy, France and the United Kingdom, countries where many people have been defrauded. Finally, I remind you that I reserve the right to file a complaint against you for defamation in light of the comments you may make about me, considering me to be a "paid advocates" and that I can therefore file an appeal with United Kingdom, country of your location, but also in Germany. I remain at your disposal for any questions concerning the OneFootball scam or concerning the proceedings which will be brought against you if necessary.
- Best regards,
- Luck08776
Luck08776 (
talk)
23:40, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is a private website; you have zero inherent rights to edit here. Any further threats of legal action will result in your talk page access being revoked.-- Ponyo bons mots 00:00, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.
If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our
guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of
your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:
- Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
- State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
- Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.