User talk:Book millstones

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Book millstones! 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:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Schazjmd (talk) 16:42, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

November 2024

Hello Book millstones. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Uplifting Service, 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:Book millstones. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Book millstones|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. Seawolf35 HGAV (talk) 15:50, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Book millstones, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Book millstones|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Seawolf35 HGAV (talk) 15:54, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I do not receive any compensation for my edits in any form. I edit and create articles solely on topics that interest me. Book millstones (talk) 16:01, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

those messages are from a known abuser of Wikipedia accounts. You can ignore them. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 17:02, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]