User talk:Homees
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[edit]Hello, Homees, and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Godsy. I volunteer as a Wikipedia mentor, and have automatically been assigned as yours. I am here for you whenever you need help with Wikipedia. It is great to have you on board to help create this online encyclopedia.
See your homepage for a brief tutorial. Here are a few links you might find helpful:
Need some ideas about what kind of things need doing? Try the "Suggested edits" module top left on your homepage, or the Task Center.
Help is available: as your Mentor, you can always find me listed in the "Your mentor" module bottom right on your homepage; there are also additional help links there. You can also ask me questions directly on my talk page, or try the Wikipedia:Teahouse to get help designed especially for new users from a team of experienced volunteers. So go ahead and ask questions—we are here to help!
Once again, welcome to Wikipedia! — Godsy (TALKCONT) 10:08, 2 September 2026 (UTC)
Removing COI tag
[edit]Thank you for copyediting articles suspected of COI. However, many of your removal of COI tags are inappropriate as they insufficiently address the promotional content of BLPs. Please gain more experience on editing before you remove any more COI tags. 海盐沙冰 / aka irisChronomia / Talk / Uploads 11:27, 16 October 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for your feedback, sir. I understand your concerns and am continuing to improve my work. I will be more careful going forward. Homees (talk) 11:32, 16 October 2026 (UTC)
- Please do not edit any articles that already have a COI tag attached to it. Your editing pattern is concerning. It is quite puzzling to me how you managed to find articles suffering from paid editing with 100% accuracy, while doing no edits to other articles.
- I am requesting you to stop editing biographies of living persons or articles about companies. 海盐沙冰 / aka irisChronomia / Talk / Uploads 11:40, 16 October 2026 (UTC)
- Okay, Thanks for guiding. Homees (talk) 11:41, 16 October 2026 (UTC)
October 2026
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Hello Homees. The nature of your edits 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Homees. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Homees|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. 海盐沙冰 / aka irisChronomia / Talk / Uploads 11:28, 16 October 2026 (UTC)
- I am not being paid for these edits. I am simply interested in improving articles by rewriting content and removing promotional language to make them more neutral. I would appreciate any suggestions you have for improving my editing and ensuring my work aligns with Wikipedia's policies. Homees (talk) 11:39, 16 October 2026 (UTC)
Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.
If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For an unblock to be considered, you must:
- Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
- State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
- Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.
Administrators: If this block includes a Volunteer Response Team ticket number, this block was placed as part of the conflict of interest VRT queue and the user must not be unblocked without the express consent of a user with access to the queue. Admins lifting or loosening such blocks without appropriate authorization may, at the discretion of the Arbitration Committee, be desysopped. ticket:2026101710004861
This block is made in my capacity as a COI VRT member based on off wiki information communicated to our email queue. That information clearly indicates you are a paid editor. 331dot (talk) 21:04, 17 October 2026 (UTC)
Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
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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. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 16:53, 5 November 2026 (UTC)