User talk:194.73.218.250
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You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:45, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. OhNoitsJamie Talk 12:55, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi Jamie, Talk
Can you give us some examples of where this has happened? We're a bit confused as the URL spam.bownmanpower.co.uk isn't something we've been linking to? We have however been linking to the legitimate bowmanpower.co.uk site. Is this a case of we've just made a few too many links to the website?
Cheers Kerri
- The "spam" part of the URL is what we use for internal tracking of external links. If we determine that editors (IP editors or account editors) continue to add spammy or conflict-of-interest links after being warned not to, such internal tracking is handy for the spam blacklist report. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:17, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Paid editing and disclosure[edit]
Hello 194.73.218.250. 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 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. 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:194.73.218.250. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=194.73.218.250|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. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:51, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
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