User talk:Infomelonygriffith

December 2023

Hello, I'm Y2hyaXM. I noticed that you recently removed content from Melony G. Griffith 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 your 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 also see Wikipedia's policies on conflicts of interest. Y2hyaXM (talk) 01:43, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Infomelonygriffith. 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 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:Infomelonygriffith. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Infomelonygriffith|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. 331dot (talk) 00:00, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Infomelonygriffith, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Melony G. Griffith, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, visit the Teahouse, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 01:47, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Blanking

You can't just erase the contents of a page as you're trying to do. That doesn't actually "take it down." Joyous! Noise! 23:57, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[adding later] If you have concerns about material in the article, please discuss it on the talk page. You might also want to read this page which discusses ways to handle information in an autobiographical article. Joyous! Noise! 00:17, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

December 2023

Due to your disruptive editing with an obvious conflict of interest, you have been indefinitely blocked from editing the single page Melony G. Griffith. You are free to make well-referenced, neutral edit requests at Talk:Melony G. Griffith. Please read the Guide to appealing blocks.

Please be aware that there is zero chance that an article about a state legislator with a 25 year career will be deleted. I suggest that you find a better way to spend your time. Cullen328 (talk) 00:20, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]