User talk:JohnHGood41

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JohnHGood41, good luck, and have fun. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 05:46, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Pharaoh of the Wizards, Thank you for the welcome message. JohnHGood41 (talk) 12:43, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank You Wikipedia for considering me to vote in ArbCom. Unfortunately i missed it. I was busy in my exams.JohnHGood41 (talk) 07:44, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

December 2020[edit]

Hello JohnHGood41. 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 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 search-engine optimization.

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:JohnHGood41. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=JohnHGood41|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. GSS ^💬 08:56, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GSS, Thanks for the notification but i am not connected with anyone or paid editing. JohnHGood41 (talk) 09:00, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure? because there is evidence off-wiki and I'm happy to share those details with an admin. GSS ^💬 09:02, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am sure. I agree that i moved Razorpay to main space but that doesn't mean i am a paid editor. JohnHGood41 (talk) 09:06, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As I said above, as per off-wiki evidence the company was looking for editors to create a new page or move this draft to main for pay and you did exactly the same edit within a few days the job was posted online. GSS ^💬 09:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I assure you i don't know about the job by company. But i personally used this payment gateway while designing a website. But i would love to see that online job posting. JohnHGood41 (talk) 09:13, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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.

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MER-C 19:03, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Glen Serbin[edit]

Hello, JohnHGood41. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Glen Serbin, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:02, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Glen Serbin[edit]

Hello, JohnHGood41. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Glen Serbin".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:07, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]