AnnaCbyAlcone
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editHi AnnaCbyAlcone! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.
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Happy editing! Jacona (talk) 17:14, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
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editRegarding the issues you've run into in posting an article here, please note that there are other wiki sites where you are free to post an article on the subject or subjects of your choosing. One such site is [Justapedia https://justapedia.org]. Justapedia is technically considered a fork of Wikipedia, meaning that it incorporates some or all of Wikipedia content (though it may not incorporate Wikipedia updates).
Of course, Justapedia is not widely recognized at the moment, but I believe pages on Justapedia are indexed by google. Note that this message is just an "fyi", and I have no affiliation with Justapedia. Fabrickator (talk) 20:57, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
Paid editing
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Hello AnnaCbyAlcone. 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 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 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:AnnaCbyAlcone. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=AnnaCbyAlcone|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. Theroadislong (talk) 21:54, 21 December 2023 (UTC)