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Paid editing

Hello Cook's Kitchen. 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.

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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:Cook's Kitchen. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Cook's Kitchen|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. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:06, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

My apologies User:TonyBallioni for the delay. I am a member of the legal orgs I started pages for, but am not paid by them. I’ve been looking around for other topics that looked interesting. Is there a resource I could access to read more about how to create pages better? Cook's Kitchen (talk) 18:30, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Furthermore I work in the real estate (investment) industry on the West coast, do you need the name of the company I work for too? (I haven’t edited anything about them, they’re not really a big deal). Cook's Kitchen (talk) 18:34, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Also just wanted to verify that I will stop editing as per your request until I am able to clear this up. My apologies again for the delay. Cook's Kitchen (talk) 19:10, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply: if you have not been paid or do not reasonably expect to receive payment, you do not have to disclose. My concerns here are that you have been churning out a lot of articles for commercial and non-profit organizations really quickly in directory entry style formatting, and that have very few mistakes in them. This is not normal for someone who just created an account, and raises concerns that you might have received payment for them as commissioned works. You can see the list of articles that I noted at COIN. Do you have any relationship at all to any of them, and if you do, were you paid to contribute? Also, is this the first Wikipedia account you have operated? TonyBallioni (talk) 22:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

I don’t expect to at this point; I had been trying to learn the ropes in order to possibly create a page for a company we invested in, but given what I’m finding out right now I think I’ll not pursue that. I wouldn’t have been paid for that either way. Can I ask what “directly entry style” is? I tend to work offline on things as I’m a perfectionist and am trying hard not to mess up. My apologies if I’m not doing things right. It’s my first time here and got a bit too into it I guess. I’m thinking about what I wrote about and I’m mostly writing about services I use, but I don’t know them personally. Like, I know “of” Ron Suber, but I don’t know him myself and never worked near his circles. I guess the closest would be Paul Bernon whom I met once, but I don’t have any connection with him professionally. I’m glad you contacted me though as I’m definitely learning more about what “not to do”; better to know now than after maybe writing something that wouldn’t have been of any use. Cook's Kitchen (talk) 00:00, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Amin Elhassan

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Proposed deletion of Cosmetic Coffee

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Kb.au (talk) 00:47, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Cosmetic Coffee for deletion

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Nomination of Austin Regional Clinic for deletion

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