User talk:Acetyl-CoA35

October 2024

Hello, I'm AntiDionysius. I noticed that you recently removed content 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. Thanks. AntiDionysius (talk) 00:20, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Jayant B. Udgaonkar. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 00:32, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Jayant B. Udgaonkar, you may be blocked from editing. AntiDionysius (talk) 09:53, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Acetyl-CoA35. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Acetyl-CoA35. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Acetyl-CoA35|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. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:01, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your comments on my talk page and your edits, a few things:

Edits being "approved by the ethics committee of the Institute" is not a good thing. People or institutions do not have editorial control over articles about them, and in fact are asked to refrain from editing those articles under Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest policy. If you are employed by the Institute, please read the paid editing policy as explained above. If you are affiliated but not employed or otherwise financially compensated, please read the conflict of interest policy. Please do not make any further edits before familiarising yourself with the relevant policy and making the necessary declarations.
Your edits contain a number of violations of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. This is the main reason we have the conflict of interest/paid editing policies; people who have COIs or who are financially tied to a topic are therefore asked not to make direct edits but to request other editors to do so on their behalf. The policies explain how.
Your edits also had some smaller issues with sourcing; YouTube videos are not generally acceptable as sources, for example.
Could you please explain what you mean when you say "The information added now is deemed essential for future students planning to join Dr. Udgaonkar's lab and to prevent future harassment and sexual exploitation of students"?

Thanks. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:09, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Acetyl-CoA35, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Jayant B. Udgaonkar, 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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The five pillars of Wikipedia
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December 2024

Hi Acetyl-CoA35! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of Jayant B. Udgaonkar several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

All editors are expected to discuss content disputes on article talk pages to try to reach consensus. If you are unable to agree at Talk:Jayant B. Udgaonkar, please use one of the dispute resolution options to seek input from others. Using this approach instead of reverting can help you avoid getting drawn into an edit war. Thank you. — Newslinger talk 02:00, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Acetyl-CoA35, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! — Newslinger talk 02:00, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]