Blacklist21

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Undisclosed paid editing

Hello Blacklist21. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Blacklist21. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Blacklist21|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. SmartSE (talk) 08:01, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

You are mistaken. Thank you for your diligence. Blacklist21 (talk) 12:40, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Your editing does give the impression of paid editing. Please reconsider your response. Thanks.Jytdog (talk) 15:01, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Again, you are mistaken. I'm not sure why there is a concern with my editing. Thanks.Blacklist21 (talk) 17:27, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

I am not mistaken. Your editing does give the impression of paid editing. Your editing is generally promotional and is on articles and topics where we have had trouble with conflicted/paid editing in the past. As is typical of paid/conflicted editors, you created twin articles on a CEO and one of his companies at about the same time, both poorly sourced.

I have read what you wrote, saying that you are not editing for pay.

Outside of being paid do you have any connection with Daniel Strauss or CareOne or any other subject about which you have edited? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 18:15, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

I have no connection, and I was not paid by either Daniel Strauss or CareOne. You are mistaken. See my response to the Amen article. Creating an article of a minority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies and then expanding to his company (both of which were absent) is not indicative of anything. What do you want me to do? Hang out in Talk pages all day and not contribute? Thanks.Blacklist21 (talk) 18:32, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

I fixed your threading in the comment above, please take the time to thread correctly. I read what you wrote; you can ignore the problems with your editing if you like, but that will not go well for you. Thanks for replying in any case. Jytdog (talk) 18:45, 9 April 2018 (UTC)