12.35.145.194

August 2019

Hello 12.35.145.194. 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:12.35.145.194. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=12.35.145.194|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. Kalimi (talk) 17:10, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

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You still have not responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 17:42, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

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HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 18:10, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Paid Editor

Hello I am currently a Communications major working as a co-op for Martinrea International, which is a tier one automotive supplier. Martinrea is currently paying me hourly and mentoring me to help better my writing skills. As a company of almost 20 years, much online information is missing on the company. My hope is to educate and provide more information on this global company that many may not be included on Wikipedia.

Thank you.

August 2019

Anonymous users from this IP address have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 16:17, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address and you are an uninvolved editor with a registered account, you may continue to edit by logging in.

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