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June 2025

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Hello Joshwill1. The nature of your edits 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are 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 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:Joshwill1. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Joshwill1|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. MrOllie (talk) 00:46, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The edits I made were suggested by Wikipedia itself. Have I done anything wrong? Joshwill1 (talk) 19:50, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You took over an obscure draft started by a banned paid editor. I am 100% certain Wikipedia itself did not recommend that you do that. MrOllie (talk) 19:52, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I think you're talking about Tom Cridland's draft. Yeah, I added a couple of links to it. I was trying to find his Wikipedia page. I don’t know him personally, but I wear his brand's clothes, and the draft seemed fine to me, so I just threw in a few links, nothing else. To be honest, I wasn't really sure what was happening. Joshwill1 (talk) 00:43, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Globevisa moved to draftspace

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Thanks for your contributions to Globevisa. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and specifically, sources need to meet the guideline Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). The current sources do not pass WP:ORGCRIT. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Whisperjanes (talk) 22:28, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

UDPE Block

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Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For an unblock to be considered, you must:

  • Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
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Sam Kuru (talk) 14:25, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The articles at Draft:Globevisa and Draft:Henry Fan (Chinese entrepreneur) are obvious paid efforts, full of junk SEO sources and known fake sites. As you've failed to fully respond to Mr. Ollie's query above, I've disabled this account. Sam Kuru (talk) 14:25, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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