User talk:888-lucky-fish

July 2019

Hello 888-lucky-fish. 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:888-lucky-fish. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=888-lucky-fish|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. GSS (talk|c|em) 07:10, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Wait. I am an amateur foodie who is writing and improving articles on many different foods and food brands well known in Asian households. Just look at my edit history. I am into food history and food culture and am writing articles for the equivalents of Pepperidge Farms cookies or Keeblerz cheese crackers in the States, since there is incomplete coverage of many famous food brands in Asia. I have no interest in company awards and revenues. Thanks for understanding buddy. 888-lucky-fish (talk) 17:02, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

I have read the above message. I will reply when I have a moment. GSS (talk|c|em) 17:52, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you GSS. Sorry if I looked like I was spamming, but that was not my intention. I am just as annoyed as you by all the adspeak-laden articles on Wikipedia, but I genuinely want to improve Wikipedia. I hope you can understand. 888-lucky-fish (talk) 17:57, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines.

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 ~~~~}}.  Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:51, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Ha Li Fa

Hello, 888-lucky-fish. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Ha Li Fa".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Lapablo (talk) 14:55, 19 January 2020 (UTC)