User talk:Woodidoo
May 2020
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Hello Woodidoo. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Howard Panes, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.
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:Woodidoo. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Woodidoo|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. scope_creepTalk 15:20, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Scope creep, I'm responding to indicate that I am not being compensated for editing. I apologize if it appears that way, and I am very willing to learn and fix my way of editing so I can better contribute to the community. Any guidance you can provide is extremely appreciated. Thanks! Woodidoo (talk) 07:35, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
- That's fine. You've made a declaration that your not being paid for work. Excellent.scope_creepTalk 10:19, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Scope creep, I'm responding to indicate that I am not being compensated for editing. I apologize if it appears that way, and I am very willing to learn and fix my way of editing so I can better contribute to the community. Any guidance you can provide is extremely appreciated. Thanks! Woodidoo (talk) 07:35, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
Welcome
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Welcome Woodidoo!
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Howard Panes
[edit]Hi @Woodidoo: Please do not revert that above redirect back to the article. There was a clear consensus less than 6 weeks ago at the Afd that the person was non-notable. If you want to recreate the article, please recreate as a Draft article and get it reviewed as a Draft article. Go to WP:DRAFT and start from there. Once it is finished, submit it and somebody will review it. If you need help, give me a shout, or go to the WP:TEAHOUSE. scope_creepTalk 14:48, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
June 2020
[edit] Hello, I'm Scope creep. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Harry Heth 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. scope_creepTalk 13:49, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is Potential UPE farm(s). Thank you. — Blablubbs (talk • contribs) 16:08, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
Blocked as a sockpuppet
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:25, 8 September 2020 (UTC)