User talk:Af1992

November 2024

Hello Af1992. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to University of Niagara Falls Canada, 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:Af1992. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Af1992|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. asilvering (talk) 17:31, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Asilvering,

I am not being directed or indirectly compensated for my edits. Af1992 (talk) 18:44, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What is your relationship to University of Niagara Falls Canada? -- asilvering (talk) 20:02, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Asilvering,

I am a citizen of Niagara Falls who's interested in keeping others informed about my community.

Kind regards,

Amelia Af1992 (talk) 21:10, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Amelia, that doesn't really answer the question that Asilvering asked. What's important is if you have any connection to the university that's closer than just living in the same city. Your edits to the page are very similar to what APDuarteM proposed. Technical evidence seems to indicate that you are not the same person, but if you know them and they asked you to make this edit, please know that this is not allowed as it is considered meatpuppetry. I'd also encourage you to read our policy on keeping a neutral point of view when editing. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 00:26, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Clovermoss. I don't know APDuarteM and am not connected to the university.

Amelia Af1992 (talk) 15:22, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Af1992!

I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Happy editing! Cheers, Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 00:30, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

December 2024

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines, as you did at University of Niagara Falls Canada.

If you believe that there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 14:15, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]