User talk:175.107.203.163

October 2024

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at 2024 Ballon d'Or. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Annh07 (talk) 23:56, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at 2024 Ballon d'Or, you may be blocked from editing. Annh07 (talk) 00:11, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello 175.107.203.163. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Omaze, 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:175.107.203.163. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=175.107.203.163|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. Belbury (talk) 09:17, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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