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KartikeyaS (
talk) 07:47, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Samaira Sandhu moved to draftspace
An article you recently created,
Samaira Sandhu, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from
reliable,
independent sources. (
?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (
verifiability is of
central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to
draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's
general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.
KartikeyaS (
talk) 07:50, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Newslinger. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KartikeyaS343 have been
disallowed by an edit filter because they did not appear constructive. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our
policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our
welcome page, which also provides further information about
contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use
the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Also feel free to ask for assistance at the
Help Desk whenever you like to. Thank you. —
Newslinger
talk 08:26, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
- As a reminder, you will need much stronger evidence to file a sockpuppetry report on another editor than what you provided in Special:AbuseLog/26320446. You must also identify at least two accounts that you believe are related to each other. — Newslinger talk 08:28, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
What does "brand post" mean? Geniac ( talk) 18:49, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Welcome! (We can't say that loudly enough!)
Hello, B-Factor, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:
- Be Bold!
- Learn from others
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- Our great guide to Wikipedia
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new contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{Help me}} on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.
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We're so glad you're here! Meatsgains ( talk) 22:43, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello B-Factor. 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 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:B-Factor. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=B-Factor|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.
KartikeyaS (
talk) 07:47, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Samaira Sandhu moved to draftspace
An article you recently created,
Samaira Sandhu, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from
reliable,
independent sources. (
?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (
verifiability is of
central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to
draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's
general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.
KartikeyaS (
talk) 07:50, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Newslinger. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/KartikeyaS343 have been
disallowed by an edit filter because they did not appear constructive. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our
policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our
welcome page, which also provides further information about
contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use
the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Also feel free to ask for assistance at the
Help Desk whenever you like to. Thank you. —
Newslinger
talk 08:26, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
- As a reminder, you will need much stronger evidence to file a sockpuppetry report on another editor than what you provided in Special:AbuseLog/26320446. You must also identify at least two accounts that you believe are related to each other. — Newslinger talk 08:28, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
What does "brand post" mean? Geniac ( talk) 18:49, 19 June 2023 (UTC)