User talk:Steptacular12
Managing a conflict of interest[edit]
Hello, Steptacular12. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Steps (pop group), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:
- avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
- propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
- disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
- avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
- do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.
In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. With this edit you asserted a connection to the group. You have also been editing under the IP address Special:Contributions/116.111.19.157 which means you have been violating WP:MULTIPLE which is a blockable offense. Binksternet (talk) 05:41, 11 June 2024 (UTC) Binksternet (talk) 05:41, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 06:00, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
Important notice[edit]
The Steps (pop group) and Steps discography articles have had their protection level upgraded to extended-confirmed as a result of your disruptive editing on those pages.
I would highly advise you to
- carefully read through the "Managing a conflict of interest" notice above
- not restore your edits on the Steps articles again without addressing the concerns raised by Binksternet and me
- disclose any other accounts / IP addresses you have used if you also edited under them
- if you have indeed used multiple accounts/IPs, then please carefully read through the sockpuppetry policy on what are, and are not valid uses of multiple accounts.
If you continue restoring these edits after the protection on the pages expire, you run into the possibility of being blocked from editing. Abusive use of multiple accounts will also result in a block from editing on both this account and any other accounts/IPs you use.
Regards, — AP 499D25 (talk) 01:50, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
Blocked for sockpuppetry[edit]
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