User talk:Wiki unofficial editors

April 2022[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "A R News Report", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it implies that it is used by more than one user. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. User3749 (talk) 11:23, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm PAVLOV. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to OpenClonk—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 Help desk. Thanks. PAVLOV (talk) 12:22, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Wiki unofficial editors. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Shafi (actor), 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:Wiki unofficial editors. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Wiki unofficial editors|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. Please note that these disclosures are REQUIRED by the Wikipedia Terms of Use, and cannot be ignored by invoking WP:IAR. Please also review WP:COI. Ravensfire (talk) 14:10, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Shafi (actor). Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Please discuss the changes on the article talk page. Wikipedia works through consensus, not edit-war. Articles need to be written in a neutral tone, and that intro is anything but neutral and cannot stay in the article. Ravensfire (talk) 14:45, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A belated welcome![edit]

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Wiki unofficial editors! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

Need some ideas of what kind of things need doing? Try the Task Center.

If you don't already know, you should sign your posts on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) to insert your username and the date.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Ravensfire (talk) 14:09, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did with this edit to Shafi (actor). Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Serols (talk) 15:37, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Shafi (actor). Johnj1995 (talk) 15:42, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]