BridgeCityBoyz

March 2024

Hello BridgeCityBoyz. 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:BridgeCityBoyz. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BridgeCityBoyz|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. David Gerard (talk) 23:51, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

FinTech and crypto are a hot topic these days and seem to fall under undue scrutiny! Everyone uses these tools and in some way is affected by the work of these companies and yet their Wikipedia pages are full of outdated and inaccurate information. Lawsuits and regulations are misrepresented and presented in a biased way. Undue weight is given to negative and trial issues. Services are not explained or presented in a historical way that allow a person to understand what they are getting into. How is someone who wants to know about a company they are going to do business with able to find out basic, factual information? I am part of the general public and found myself in that position as I traveled outside the US and found it difficult to know what is what. I began doing research and decided that I could help others. Cryptocurrencies fascinate me, interpreting regulations is a challenge that I enjoy and uncovering different cite and sourcing can lead me down a black hole!

The crypto content I updated was already on the page and I thought I had a good cite because I had seen it on other pages. Thank you for sharing that resource. I have found a different article to support that content - the one previously on the page before I made the edit is behind a paywall and this new cite is much better in all aspects. I have much more to contribute and believe I am doing a valuable service. BridgeCityBoyz (talk) 14:59, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

June 2024

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

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David Gerard (talk) 20:09, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

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