Omastromonaco

July 2020

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Kings Food Markets, you may be blocked from editing. This is not remotely appropriate content for an encyclopedia. It's pure marketing. It's terribly written, punctuated, capitalized, and proofread. Please read the referenced policy and guidelines sections and learn what this website is and isn't. Thanks. Julietdeltalima (talk) 16:40, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Hello Omastromonaco. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Balducci's, 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 serious 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:Omastromonaco. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Omastromonaco|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. Julietdeltalima (talk) 16:41, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

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 ~~~~}}.  MER-C 18:13, 23 July 2020 (UTC)