User talk:2603:8001:9442:6D00:40D9:C028:A0E7:8185

Hello 2603:8001:9442:6D00:40D9:C028:A0E7:8185. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Richard Cheese, 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:2603:8001:9442:6D00:40D9:C028:A0E7:8185. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=2603:8001:9442:6D00:40D9:C028:A0E7:8185|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. Yappy2bhere (talk) 19:38, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just a fan. You deleted a bunch of albums from the page, which are all clearly documented on multiple music/streaming sites. Before you cut things from a musician's page, you should look on iTunes to verify before you remove stuff. Also you keep removing factual information from the page, and reverting to ancient versions of the page that are incomplete and full of errors. Undoing a revision to something that is also incorrect isn't cool. You may as well delete the whole page instead of leaving it in tatters like that. I don't know what motivates you to go to a page and undo a bunch of edits done over several years. If you're not a long-time fan of the band then what's the point of involving yourself? What you're doing is absolutely not the way Wikipedia is supposed to work. Based on all the complaints that have been lodged against you, you are the problem here, not me. Please stop making destructive edits to the page and go bother someone else. I won't be responding to you anymore. Go look in a mirror and get some help, man.

Yes, you've said all that before [1], but do you have a financial interest in or ties to Richard Cheese or his band?

The way Wikipedia is supposed to work is, you cite reliable sources to support the statements you make so that readers can verify that what you've written is true. Richardcheese2 didn't do that, and you haven't done that. You must, or your changes will be reverted. Yappy2bhere (talk) 22:40, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No, I do not have a financial interest or ties to Richard Cheese or his band. I AM JUST A FAN. You said, "You must, or your changes will be reverted." Reverted to what? To older versions that were also inaccurate/incomplete??? That's the problem here; you are going through and Undoing everything without appreciating that you are leaving the page worse than you found it. You are reverting the page back to a state that is also inaccurate and also unsupported. If you think something is inaccurate, then investigate it thoroughly and fix it thoroughly; you can't just delete the recent changes and assume that makes everything okay. Again, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? Why do you wake up in the morning and say, I'm going to go through this Wikipedia page and selectively delete some things but make zero effort to check the accuracy of what I leave behind. How can you possibly think that what you are doing is appropriate? It's like going to the beach to pick up litter from the sand, but you're only willing to pick up plastic, and you leave the paper and glass where it is. Just ridiculous.

July 2021

Hello, I'm Rdp060707. I noticed that in this edit to Talk:Richard Cheese, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. ----Rdp060707|talk 07:32, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Anonymous users from this IP address have been blocked from editing from certain pages (Richard Cheese) for a period of 1 year for COI editing and block evasion.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Girth Summit _(blether) 09:53, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

BLP concerns

You can pass this on to anyone who might need it. Please see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help. Subjects of articles and their fans should not edit articles themselves. They can raise concerns about content and sourcing on the article talk page or at WP:BLPN instead. "All content must be cited from reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and have a reputation for fact checking." Subjects of articles and their fans should be aware that they may not attempt to dictate content. Ultimately, serious problems with content and sourcing can be addressed with the WMF-- info-en-qwikimedia.org – handles issues regarding an article that is written about you or someone you are a fan of. Cheers, --Deepfriedokra (talk) 10:48, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Deepfriedokra, if you're interested, I've been having a discussion with the IP editor on my talk. I'm now inclined to believe that they are not the subject of the article, rather they're a fan who has been in correspondence with the subject on Twitter regarding the article. I'm going to leave the p-block in place due to the obvious COI concerns, and the fact that they are effectively proxxying for a blocked user (Richardcheese2, who has acknowledged being the subject, was p-blocked from the article last year). Girth Summit _(blether) 11:26, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Only one @RichardCheese tweet mentions Wikipedia [ref twitter.com/search?q=wikipedia (from:RichardCheese)]. They could have corresponded privately [2] but that's not verifiable. And before "/Lisa" there was "Carrie", with the same pattern of editing from the same location using a different block of IPs at the same IP provider. I believe Slashme was correct; I believe you're mistaken. Yappy2bhere (talk) 21:08, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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