Lrstalter
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editHello, Lrstalter, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to National Defense Industrial Association. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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July 2019
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Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in National Defense Industrial Association, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Why do you keep changing the capitalization of "association", "chapter" an other terms? These should be lowercase, per MOS:INSTITUTIONS and MOS:SECTIONS. For example, one might say "National Defense Industrial Association" and "the Central Florida Chapter" (proper nouns), but "the association" and "29 chapters" (common nouns). —Eyer (If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message to let me know.) 19:18, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Lrstalter. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:
- avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).
Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. —Eyer (If you reply, add {{reply to|Eyer}} to your message to let me know.) 19:32, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you.
July 2019
edit Hello Lrstalter. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to National Defense Industrial Association, 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:Lrstalter. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Lrstalter|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. creffett (talk) 01:16, 24 July 2019 (UTC)