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  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is LTA sockpuppetry, puffery of Karna of Mahabharata. Thank you. — DaxServer (talk · contribs) 11:24, 28 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

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I am trying to read wiki articles on how to reply to the Wikipedia: Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents but it's proving a bit tough. In response, there was a particular day I was unable to use Wikipedia. Every time, I got an error that a certain user using my IP had been blocked for Sockpuppetry. Well, at first I did not know how that happened until I realized someone else using our internet could have been the reason why our internet was blocked. First, I live in an apartment with about 30 houses and we all share the same internet. We don't have individual internets. A day later, I was able to access Wikipedia again.

February 2022

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Hello Kelvin Wanjiru. 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:Kelvin Wanjiru. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kelvin Wanjiru|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. CUPIDICAE💕 21:57, 11 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Praxidicae FYI: This user seems to be a part of Karna sock farm as described at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1090#LTA sockpuppetry, puffery of Karna of Mahabharata. The first two edits are along the same lines- revert another user and self-revert immediately- who would then be reverted by another user creating a false persona that the third revert (done by another user) would be reverting a disruptive user. Also, the two drafts are poorly sourced just like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ishell Vaughan - all three of them in the films sector. I think all these users work for some company that provides Wiki editing-as-a-service. — DaxServer (t · c) 18:43, 12 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Praxidicae Thanks for your feedback in regards to the new pages I have created. I would like to make a reply in regards to the above statements. First, the two pages I have created are on a voluntary basis. If you check my Wikipedia Account, it was created over a year ago. Since then, I have been learning about Wikipedia policies, how to create new pages and articles, the do and don'ts on Wikipedia among others. Just recently, I decided to try and create new articles. So you may wonder how I settled for DJ DEFEO and Anthony forest. The two were my former clients who had hired me to write their personal Biographies for use on their websites. I realized the Bio of the two could qualify as Wikipedia articles and so I requested if I could use their content to test my abilities on creating Wikipedia pages. The reason why I voluntarily proposed to create the pages was because I needed to challenge myself. I have totally no hidden agenda on this except to make my skills better. If you review the keenly, you will realize the pages are a bit basic but with time, I hope to become an expert wiki editor. I am not paid to do this and still don't expect anything from the two guys. My only goal is to learn and become better, with the help of other editors. Maybe in the future, I will earn to create pages. If that happens, I will definitely declare that in accordance with the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Also, if my edits are against wiki policies, I will be happy to bring them down.
 

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. CUPIDICAE💕 19:06, 23 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Reply on paid Contribution

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Thanks for your feedback in regards to the new pages I have created. I would like to make a reply in regards to the above statements. First, the two pages I have created are on a voluntary basis. If you check my Wikipedia Account, it was created over a year ago. Since then, I have been learning about Wikipedia policies, how to create new pages and articles, the do and don'ts on Wikipedia among others. Just recently, I decided to try and create new articles. So you may wonder how I settled for DJ DEFEO and Anthony forest. The two were my former clients who had hired me to write their personal Biographies for use on their websites. I realized the Bio of the two could qualify as Wikipedia articles and so I requested if I could use their content to test my abilities on creating Wikipedia pages. The reason why I voluntarily proposed to create the pages was because I needed to challenge myself. I have totally no hidden agenda on this except to make my skills better. If you review the keenly, you will realize the pages are a bit basic but with time, I hope to become an expert wiki editor. I am not paid to do this and still don't expect anything from the two guys. My only goal is to learn and become better, with the help of other editors. Maybe in the future, I will earn to create pages. If that happens, I will definitely declare that in accordance with the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements

AfC notification: Draft:Anthony Forrest (actor) has a new comment

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Anthony Forrest (actor). Thanks! – Pbrks (t • c) 20:43, 14 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Important notices

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This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in articles about living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles. 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.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

DaxServer (t · c) 11:09, 22 February 2022 (UTC) Reply

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. 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.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

DaxServer (t · c) 11:09, 22 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Help me understand the Important notice message

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@DaxServer I got a notification on the important notice on my talk page. I am very new to this and would be glad to understand this better. Please help me understand what the notice means and what I need to do. I hope to rectify any errors I might have made unknowingly. Kelvin Wanjiru (talk) 19:04, 22 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
  I have read the above message. I will reply when I have a moment. — DaxServer (t · c) 10:33, 23 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Due to past disruptions in the topic areas linked in the individual messages, the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee (also Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee) has authorised administrators to impose sanctions and/or restrictions to users and/or articles where the disruption occurs. The editors who are notified of these alerts, are expected to edit carefully and constructively, to not disrupt the encyclopedia and adhere to the guidelines said in the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions#Guidance for editors section. Violation of such guidelines can lead to sanctions like restrictions from editing one or more pages where the user doesn't comply, or topic bans, or even block the user from Wikipedia entirely. — DaxServer (t · c) 19:29, 2 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
The first message covers articles about living people (your edits related to your paid contributions) and the second one covers India-related topics (your edits on Kunti) — DaxServer (t · c) 19:32, 2 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Declaration to paid contribution

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Anthony Forrest (actor) (March 2)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Praxidicae were: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
CUPIDICAE💕 19:11, 2 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
 
Hello, Kelvin Wanjiru! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! CUPIDICAE💕 19:11, 2 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Defeo (May 18)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by PerfectSoundWhatever were:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 15:34, 18 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Anthony Forrest (actor) (June 20)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Kvng was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
~Kvng (talk) 20:26, 20 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Concern regarding Draft:Anthony Forrest (actor)

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  Hello, Kelvin Wanjiru. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Anthony Forrest (actor), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:01, 20 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Concern regarding Draft:Defeo

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  Hello, Kelvin Wanjiru. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Defeo, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 05:02, 1 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:Anthony Forrest (actor)

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Hello, Kelvin Wanjiru. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Anthony Forrest".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Hey man im josh (talk) 20:51, 20 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:Defeo

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Hello, Kelvin Wanjiru. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Defeo".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 04:36, 1 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

CS1 error on Joseph Phua

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  Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Joseph Phua, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

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January 2024

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Wikipedia's technical logs indicate that this user account has been or may be used abusively. It has been blocked indefinitely from editing to prevent abuse.

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Spicy (talk) 11:03, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply