User talk:Kernow1964
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{{My sandbox}} on your user page. By the way, seeing as you haven't created a user page yet, simply click here to start it.Edits referring to Philip Selwyn and Papa Pump
[edit]I made an edit that dramatically shrank the amount of text on the Hydraulic ram pump page that referred to the "Papa Pump". I made that edit after another user had said it seemed like advertising and I agreed. You reverted my edit. In looking at the history on the page, you reverted another attempt to delete all reference to the "Papa Pump".
Your edits appear to be mostly about the Papa Pump. The only other edit is an account about ball lightning by Philip Selwyn, the inventor of the Papa Pump. That edit had no external citations, except to Selwyn's list of patents.
Since you claim to own the image of the internals of the Papa Pump, I believe it is highly likely that you are Selwyn or work for Water Powered Technologies Ltd., that produces the pump. If that is the case, your edits concerning the Papa Pump is a violation of Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest policy.
I have not warned a user before. I believe I do it by including the following:
Hello, I'm Mdnahas. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.
Mdnahas (talk) 18:21, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Undisclosed paid editing
[edit]Hello Kernow1964. 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:Kernow1964. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kernow1964|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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:01, 9 July 2021 (UTC)