NBA Referees

Paid editing

Hello NBA Referees. 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 List of National Basketball Association referees, 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:NBA Referees. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=NBA Referees|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. UnitedStatesian (talk) 14:13, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

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Continued editing

You may be blocked from editing without further warning if you make any further edits without responding to the inquiry you received regarding undisclosed paid editing. UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:46, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

February 2019

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page List of National Basketball Association referees has been reverted.
Your edit here to List of National Basketball Association referees was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://youtube.com/watch?v=4BGP4uBtC-M, https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Vf1whV6xE0, https://youtube.com/watch?v=WXtUTcZPh7g, https://youtube.com/watch?v=a2cpiPw4pxk) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. music or video) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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Administrator notification

I have requested, at WP:AN, that you be blocked from editing due to your continued edits in spite of my requests here on your talk page. UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:11, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

February 2019

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In that reason, you must:

• Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
• Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. 331dot (talk) 17:33, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

You haven't edited 'promotionally' per se, but if you are an NBA referee or represent them, you must comply with WP:COI and WP:PAID, as well as suggest a new username that indicates an individual is using this account; you need not use your real name. 331dot (talk) 17:34, 12 February 2019 (UTC)