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Hello Hrdubois. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Father Joe's Villages, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Misplaced Pages'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 Misplaced Pages to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Misplaced Pages 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.
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As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Draft:Father Joe's Villages, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Misplaced Pages's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Hrdubois, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Hrdubois|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Misplaced Pages. Longhair\ 23:53, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, I seem to be dealing with a bit of a catch 22 here. I tried adding the paid template
{{paid|user=Hrdubois|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}to my user page and received an error stating that I don't have an actual user page. Please advise. Thank you! Hrdubois (talk) 22:15, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
- Your userpage is located at User:Hrdubois. -- Longhair\ 07:43, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
Thank you. I added the paid template to my userpage. Can the Father Joe's Villages wikipedia page be published? Hrdubois (talk) 04:57, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Father Joe's Villages (October 11)
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Hello, Hrdubois! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Misplaced Pages where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Tol (talk | contribs) @ 03:24, 11 October 2021 (UTC) |
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Happy editing! Longhair\ 07:43, 12 October 2021 (UTC)