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16:05, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello Martinvince. 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:Martinvince. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Martinvince|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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krutapidla2 (talk • contribs) 12:49, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

RESPONSE: I declare that I am a paid editor that was hired by someone to provide factual information on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Gordon_(businessman). I was not aware of disclosure requirements and my employer did not inform me about this.

However, your own edits seem suspicious, biased, and defamatory in nature. You also removed several sentences of content I had added and are doing disruptive editing. I believe your conduct is a clear violation of Wikipedia’s principles of neutrality.

Also, it is very suspicious how you concluded that I was a paid editor. The client tells me he only invited 5 people to the task, so you must be one of these 5 people. It was a private listing. I ask that you also refrain from making any more edits to Gordon’s page due to your conflict of interest. - Martinvince

Conflict-of-interest noticeboard

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is Benjamin Gordon (businessman). Thank you. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 05:24, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Benjamin_Gordon_(businessman)

Rebutting an editor's claim of non-notability with sources is acceptable. Rebutting every editor's claim of non-notability by copying and pasting the same four sources is bludgeoning. Accusing every editor who !votes against you of being a sock is a personal attack. You have made your point, and editors closing AfDs are well aware of our notability guidelines and know how to look for obvious new accounts. I advise you to step away from that AfD. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:44, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry I was not aware that there was such a thing as "BLUDGEON." However, if you look at the history in the deletion page, my comments were necessary because it appears that one editor is attacking this page from several accounts by sockpoppet or meatpoppet means. I will not post anymore comments to this AFD as per your request. Martinvince (talk) 10:17, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.