Editor Alex2021

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You have shown interest in post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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Doug Weller talk 12:43, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

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Hello, Editor Alex2021. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Acroterion (talk) 13:22, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Sorry Alex, but I have to ask you to revert your edits.

As a WP:PAID editor you need to follow the guidance at that page and WP:COI. "This advises that those with a conflict of interest, including paid editors, are very strongly discouraged from directly editing affected articles, but should post content proposals on the talk pages of existing articles, and should put new articles through the articles for creation process, so they can be reviewed prior to being published. That's why I'm asking you to revert your edits and start using the talk page. You probably know about Project Veritas - we have a similar situation there (and other places but this is one on my WP:WATCHLIST.

You can see how the editor there handles this at Talk:Project Veritas and how they've declared themselves at User:Sal at PV.

Funny, noticing your edit changing network to "company", see my old comment at Talk:Right Side Broadcasting Network.

You'll have noticed the alert above explaining the situation with articles on American politics. It's routine and I gave myself one. In fact if you click on the link at "here" you'll see that I was an elected member of the WP:Arbitration Committee and helped create the sanctions for that area.

You can ask Sal for advice, but the trick it to assume good faith and be WP:Civil, and try to learn our policies and guidelines, probably mainly be making requests and being told why or why not they can be implemented. This of course is not exactly the best time to be involved in an article relating to Trump, and I hope there will be no problems, but if other editors don't behave as perhaps they should simply be polite.

Now as to your question about images, read Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials (maybe read that first, I don't think the non-free content applies if the company donates the image.

Full disclosure - I won't be unhappy if Trump ends up in jail, but that rarely happens to the well-connected and wealthy. Doug Weller talk 16:46, 18 January 2021 (UTC)