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Speedy deletion nomination of NordVPN (software)

Hello Minor stab,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged NordVPN (software) for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Mar11 (talk) 10:43, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of NordVPN (software)

Hello Minor stab,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged NordVPN (software) for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Jbh ^Talk 13:58, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

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July 2019

Hello Minor stab. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to NordVPN, 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 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.

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Response July 2019

I can confirm that I haven't received compensation for editing this article nor do I expect receiving any. I use NordVPN daily and one day noticed that its Wikipedia article was very limited. So I started editing the article and it became a sort of a pet project. I do try to stay as objective as possible, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minor stab (talk • contribs) 11:53, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I've removed the paid editing tag from NordVPN. — Newslinger talk 03:06, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

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