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February 2024

Hello Soafy234. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Barbara Capponi, 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.

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I apologize for not keeping it on my talk page and I apologize for leaving it on your talk page.

I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits to Barbara Capponi page. I am translating the information that is found on the Italian wikipedia webpage of her profile page onto the English wikipedia webpage with appropriate references and sources. Soafy234 (talk) 18:10, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

I find this explanation insufficient given that you have thus far exclusively edited articles related to RAI properties, as well as the pace at which you have been doing so. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 18:13, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Is there any other information that you need included in my explanation?

Additionally, isn't it allowed to translate information into different language(s) from one language wikipedia to another language wikipedia when a person has time to do it with appropriate sources and references as needed on any topic (e.g. info found on Unomattina [Italian] to Unomattina [English]) beyond the one we are discussing Soafy234 (talk) 18:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

How did you choose which articles to translate from Italian? _signed, Rosguill ^talk 18:28, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

I choose which articles to translate from Italian based on what information is currently lacking and/or needs updates on the English version or create them if they don't exist yet (e.g. Unomattina in famgilia)

For example, the RaiNews 24 was severely lacking and I have been paying close attention to the changes that has happen as I usually watch this network online on my laptop and notice that the directors of RaiNews24 section has been outdated as there is a new director for the media outlet. Soafy234 (talk) 18:57, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Ok. I don't find that explanation super convincing, as it seems like a pretty significant coincidence that every article you've edited thus far, both here and on it.wiki, is affiliated with RAI. I would strongly recommend that for the foreseeable future you avoid editing topics related to RAI, and preferably stick to articles about subjects with little-to-no possibility of commercial interest (e.g., historical topics, articles about animal species, etc.) If you continue to focus on RAI topics, I am going to bring it to a community discussion at WP:COIN in order for others to assess the situation. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 22:18, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Duly noted. I will keep that in mind while editing articles on both the English Wikipedia and the Italian wikipedia. Soafy234 (talk) 22:24, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

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July 2024

Please don't change the format of dates, as you did to Rai 1. As a general rule, if an article has evolved using predominantly one format, the dates should be left in the format they were originally written in, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. Please also note that Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes (e.g., st, nd, th), articles, or leading zeros on dates.

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Please don't change the format of dates, as you did to Rai News 24. As a general rule, if an article has evolved using predominantly one format, the dates should be left in the format they were originally written in, unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic. Please also note that Wikipedia does not use ordinal suffixes (e.g., st, nd, th), articles, or leading zeros on dates.

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If you have any questions about this, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Enjoy your time on Wikipedia. Thank you. Denisarona (talk) 15:22, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

After doing some digging back into the history of this article, more history stuff was beginning to be added on January 23, 2024 (1) . The last edited piece for awhile was made on January 24, 2024 (2). Both instances show that the article has evolved with using the month, day and year format overtime and not the day, month and year format. I think that the article should use month, day and year. Soafy234 (talk) 16:38, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

The opening of the article used 26 April 1999, i.e. dmy dates. DMY dates are the normal use in Italy and the rest of Europe. Regards Denisarona (talk) 08:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

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