User talk:Epivaxwiki

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Anthony Marcello concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Anthony Marcello, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 180 days. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 18:19, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Anthony Marcello

Hello Epivaxwiki. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Anthony Marcello".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. DGG ( talk ) 20:36, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

January 2022

Hello Epivaxwiki. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Talk:Robert W. Malone, 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:Epivaxwiki. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Epivaxwiki|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. Doug Weller talk 15:04, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Doug, I'm new to wikipedia, so please pardon my lack of knowledge here. I do work for EpiVax, which I suppose means I should update our COI. However I stand by my edit request, and can assure you I am not financially motivated here. The information I requested be removed is completely false, and furthermore has prompted inquiries to our company that we've had to dispel. So just trying put an end to those requests, as Robert Malone has never served on EpiVax's Scientific Advisory Board.

RileyEpivaxwiki (talk) 15:31, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because your username, Epivaxwiki, does not meet our username policy. Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have selected a new username that meets the username policy guidelines, which are summarized below.

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