User talk:Minquas

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Happy editing! Kj cheetham (talk) 18:21, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

May 2021

Hi Minquas! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 18:21, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kj cheetam, thank you for pointing me to the Minor Edits page. Minquas (talk) 21:21, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please define your COI with Draft:Stroud Water Research Center

Are you receiving, broadly construed, any benefit from the organisation? Please read Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure and vary your disclosure if required. I Note your user page declaration. Below this note I am about to ask you a formal question whcih must be answered. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 07:41, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

July 2021

Hello Minquas. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Stroud Water Research Center, 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:Minquas. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Minquas|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. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 07:41, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Stroud Water Research Center has been accepted

Stroud Water Research Center, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 07:46, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

COI for Stroud Water Research Center defined

Hello Timtrent. Thank you for the instructions for properly disclosing my relationship with Stroud Water Research Center.Minquas (talk) 16:12, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]