Gemma at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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editHello, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
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- Renamed, unblocked, courtesy ping to Ceranthor - Cabayi (talk) 10:02, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Please read WP:COI 10mmsocket (talk) 11:18, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. As you are very clearly a paid-employee - the communications manager - of the sculpture park you should take a step back and stop editing. 10mmsocket (talk) 11:19, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising, as you did at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This is not your article even though you are an employee of the article's subject. Please stop now. 10mmsocket (talk) 11:26, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
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editThere is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.10mmsocket (talk) 11:43, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
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- When you were originally blocked for your username, you were advised about the expectations for editors who have a WP:conflict of interest, and of the [[paid editing requirements. You should not have been editing that article at all; certainly, you should not have created an alternative account to evade scrutiny. Girth Summit (blether) 11:51, 20 December 2022 (UTC)