User talk:Interfever

March 2021

Hello Interfever. 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 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:Interfever. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Interfever|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 ^💬 16:10, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello GSS. Thank you for your message. Please note that I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. Respectfully Interfever (talk) 21:10, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note that you don't have to be specifically paid for your edits to be a paid editor. I haven't seen the evidence yet, but more than one user says that it exists, so I suggest you consider what that might be. We can't bring it up as you have the right to privacy(and I'm not asking you to bring it up). 331dot (talk) 00:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

April 2021

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

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MER-C 18:29, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Gia Merlo has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission:

This is a highly promotional biography. Most of the material here is irrelevant (her high school activities, the books she has not yet published), or very minor (being on an editorial board, or a board of directors.) A clinical professor. , is not a tenure track professor, but aa much lower rank, for someone in the community associated in some manner with a med school--it is typically a courtesy appointment for a practitioner.

The obvious motivation for this draft is her 2021 book -- not her first academic book, but her only book, which has just been published.

Thanks! DGG ( talk ) 13:29, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Gia Merlo

Hello, Interfever. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Gia Merlo, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 14:02, 26 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]