USRF 2022

January 2022

Hello USRF 2022. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to U.S. Russia Foundation, 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:USRF 2022. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=USRF 2022|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. Note that you must WP:DISCLOSE any conflict of interest. Ganesha811 (talk) 00:18, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to U.S. Russia Foundation, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:USRF 2022, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=USRF 2022|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Ganesha811 (talk) 02:52, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

March 2022

You may be blocked from editing without further warning if you make any further edits without responding to the inquiry you received regarding undisclosed paid editing. Ganesha811 (talk) 22:11, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. —Ganesha811 (talk) 20:09, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

I will request edits on the talk page. There were several pieces of information that are out of date and I have just updated them with citations to reflect the latest. Thank you. USRF 2022 (talk) 20:19, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Go ahead and request edits on the talk page. I'm happy to take a look at them. Make sure to add the appropriate template ({{Paid}}) to your user page at User:USRF 2022. —Ganesha811 (talk) 22:31, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Request edit

I have moved your edit request to the proper place, Talk:U.S. Russia Foundation. Please note that it is imperative that you heed the above notices to disclose your employment in accordance with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure policy. Failure to disclose can result in your account being blocked. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 01:09, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created U.S. Russia Foundation, and I noticed that your username, "USRF 2022", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 01:16, 16 August 2022 (UTC)