User talk:RaimLull
December 2019
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Hello RaimLull. 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 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, and if it does not, 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:RaimLull. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RaimLull|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. MrOllie (talk) 01:08, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello MrOllie, I guess I have sent my first response to the wrong place. Sorry for that. I am new here, and I am feeling a bit confused about the many different links. As for your question, I have never received any payment, and I have no personal or professional relationship to Prof. Hoff, although I a was a student of his many years ago. My edit was meant to improve the article: I have deleted one information, which was - as it seems to me - not verifiable, added some links to webpages that include the relevant biographical information, and I have also added references to (mainly German) academic articles, which confirm the research summary. I have also added some articles to the publication list that confirm the information of the last paragagraph on Schlingensief etc, although I didn't include special references, since the connection seems obvious. Please let me know if these amendments did not meet the Wiki-Standards, or if I have written something inappropriate. With the best wishes for the new year!RaimLull (talk) 11:34, 27 December 2019 (UTC)