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September 2017

Hello, I'm C.Fred. I noticed that you recently removed content from Sammy Sosa without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please explain your specific concerns with the cited sources on the talk page. That will give us a better feel for why the material might need to be removed. —C.Fred (talk) 01:33, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Sammy Sosa, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Additionally, you are dangerously close to violating the three-revert rule, which states that any editor who reverts an article more than three times within a 24-hour period may be blocked. —C.Fred (talk) 01:39, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello DominicanResponse. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Sammy Sosa, but that you have not 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.
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:DominicanResponse. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=DominicanResponse|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. —C.Fred (talk) 01:44, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 01:48, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

About your friend

You may find this page useful: Wikipedia:About you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:31, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]