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I sympathize with your efforts to improve the US Pony Club article. However, please read WP:COI and WP:COPYVIO. You can't simply copy and paste material from the club's website here, as it is a copyright violation. Also, you need to cite the sources you use. I would be glad to help you make these improvements if you post your concerns at the talk page of the article, here: Talk:United States Pony Clubs. Also, Wikipedia does not allow corporate accounts, only individual ones, so please do read our COI guidelines (which I have linked) and follow them. Montanabw (talk) 17:13, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
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You did not understand what we said. The article stays. It is people with a direct interest in the organization who must respect the rules of wikipedia, you cannot copy and paste copyrighted information into a wikipedia article. You also are not supposed to be editing as a "corporate" account - only individuals can edit, because each person is responsible for their own contributions. Wikipedia has very strict rules about people doing editing either for pay or at the request of their employer. If you view the material on the USPC page as incorrect, the thing to do is to explain what is wrong on the talk page and work with experienced editors here to fix the problems. Montanabw (talk) 22:39, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
USPC2015, please log in when you edit as your IP address can reveal information about you like your physical location. Also, Montanabw is correct, your username implies that you are working on behalf of an organization whose article you are editing. Consider changing your username, via Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple, so there is no confusion. Also, differences of opinion on articles, what we term as "content disputes", are common on Wikipedia and are worked out on the article talk page by presenting reliable sources that support your edit and having editors come to a consensus. Liz Read! Talk! 18:14, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to United States Pony Clubs has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.
Thank you. ClueBot NG ( talk) 20:26, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello USPC2015. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. 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.
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, 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:USPC2015. The template {{ Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=USPC2015|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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message.
I sympathize with your efforts to improve the US Pony Club article. However, please read WP:COI and WP:COPYVIO. You can't simply copy and paste material from the club's website here, as it is a copyright violation. Also, you need to cite the sources you use. I would be glad to help you make these improvements if you post your concerns at the talk page of the article, here: Talk:United States Pony Clubs. Also, Wikipedia does not allow corporate accounts, only individual ones, so please do read our COI guidelines (which I have linked) and follow them. Montanabw (talk) 17:13, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello and
welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to
talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to
sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:
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Thank you. -- SineBot ( talk) 18:42, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
You did not understand what we said. The article stays. It is people with a direct interest in the organization who must respect the rules of wikipedia, you cannot copy and paste copyrighted information into a wikipedia article. You also are not supposed to be editing as a "corporate" account - only individuals can edit, because each person is responsible for their own contributions. Wikipedia has very strict rules about people doing editing either for pay or at the request of their employer. If you view the material on the USPC page as incorrect, the thing to do is to explain what is wrong on the talk page and work with experienced editors here to fix the problems. Montanabw (talk) 22:39, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
USPC2015, please log in when you edit as your IP address can reveal information about you like your physical location. Also, Montanabw is correct, your username implies that you are working on behalf of an organization whose article you are editing. Consider changing your username, via Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple, so there is no confusion. Also, differences of opinion on articles, what we term as "content disputes", are common on Wikipedia and are worked out on the article talk page by presenting reliable sources that support your edit and having editors come to a consensus. Liz Read! Talk! 18:14, 16 October 2015 (UTC)