User talk:Blueskyinwinter

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Blueskyinwinter, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Riders For Health, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Teahouse, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{help me}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 11:36, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of "Riders For Health"[edit]

A page you created, Riders For Health, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it has no content\, other than external links\, categories\, "see also" sections\, rephrasing of the title\, and/or chat-like comments.

You are welcome to contribute content which complies with our content policies and any applicable inclusion guidelines. However, please do not simply re-create the page with the same content. You may also wish to read our introduction to editing and guide to writing your first article.

Thank you. I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 11:36, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

March 2016[edit]

Hello, I'm GermanJoe. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Mark Richardson (musician), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please see also WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:PROMO for additional information regarding the removed content. GermanJoe (talk) 17:27, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Blueskyinwinter. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Mark Richardson (musician), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Longhair\^talk 10:26, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

September 2021[edit]

Hello Blueskyinwinter. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Mark Richardson (musician), 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:Blueskyinwinter. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Blueskyinwinter|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. Longhair\^talk 10:28, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Mark Richardson (musician), give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia'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:Blueskyinwinter, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Blueskyinwinter|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Longhair\^talk 10:33, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. Longhair\^talk 10:34, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]