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Just checking

Is all this material on this page and your user page about you of your boss? If so, you need to check WP:COI and WP:PAID and make a declaration. You edits at the article Bitcoin Center NYC seem highly inappropriate. Replacing "sparsely attended" with "passionately attended" is a problem. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 21:27, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

I am not a paid author. I am just adding more content to this article and trying to accurately source the article.

Could you expand on your connection to Bitcoin Center NYC and Nick Spanos? --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 20:49, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

I have no connection.

Then could you explain why your sole contributions to this project have been to promote Nick Spanos and Bitcoin Center NYC? Also, I'm not sure why you keep putting {} brackets around your replies.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:38, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Blockchain and Crypto

Please read this notification carefully, it contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

A community decision has authorised the use of general sanctions for pages related to the blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The details of these sanctions are described here. All pages that are broadly related to these topics are subject to a one revert per twenty-four hours restriction, as described here.

General sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimise disruption in controversial topic areas. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to these topics that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behaviour, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. An editor can only be sanctioned after he or she has been made aware that general sanctions are in effect. This notification is meant to inform you that sanctions are authorised in these topic areas, which you have been editing. It is only effective if it is logged here. Before continuing to edit pages in these topic areas, please familiarise yourself with the general sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

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Smallbones_(smalltalk) 21:33, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Paid editing and conflicts of interest

Hello MAdkins164. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:MAdkins164. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MAdkins164|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:36, 5 July 2018 (UTC)