Arthur Sparknottle

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Happy editing! —PaleoNeonate – 19:23, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

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Your comments appear to be a gross exaggeration. On Wikipedia, reliable sources are required to support claims about living people (WP:BLPRS). Your thread at WP:FTN was closed as such and because you do not appear to be editing to build the encyclopedia (WP:SPA, WP:HERE: you are not blocked yet but that is also a valid block reason). Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 19:23, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Gross exaggeration? You make me laugh if you consider Ferguson's "science" as anything but that! Arthur Sparknottle (talk) 23:27, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Are you a paid editor with a conflict of interest?

Hello Arthur Sparknottle. 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:Arthur Sparknottle. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Arthur Sparknottle|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. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:03, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

I thought that would be obvious. Wikipedia's gross negligence and gross incompetence mis-labelling Neil Ferguson (Pseudoscientist) as a scientist is the direct cause of 69% of people in poor countries and 45% of people in rich countries being financially less well off [1]. I rather hope that a class action by all those people against the Foundation should see this cess pool of misinformation with malignant intent shut down for good. Don't try and say I didn't make every effort to try to save it and all those people all that money. Arthur Sparknottle (talk) 07:55, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Ledlenser

Hello! Your submission of Ledlenser at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 00:35, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Your response is needed at the nomination template immediately, or else this nomination will be closed as unsuccessful. Yoninah (talk) 22:15, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Attribution

Thank you for creating Ledlenser. It appears to be a translation of the German language article "Ledlenser". When you translate text from a foreign language Wikipedia you should provide attribution to the original authors in your first edit summary and by adding a translation tag to the talk page, as I have done in this instance. This is a Wikipedia requirement to conform to its copyright obligations. Thank you. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:38, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

January 2021

Hello, I'm BegbertBiggs. I noticed that you made a comment that didn't seem very civil, so it may have been removed. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. BegbertBiggs (talk) 10:46, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Your edits to Brexit

Hey there, you might want to familiarise yourself with Wikipedia:Reliable sources before contributing. Best, Caius G. (talk) 14:53, 3 January 2021 (UTC)