March 2021

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  Hello, I'm Chlod. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Scottish Industrial Railway Centre, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please provide a soruce for the rename. Thanks! Chlod (say hi!) 13:20, 5 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Hello 86.2.219.60. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to User talk:Chlod, 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:86.2.219.60. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=86.2.219.60|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. Chlod (say hi!) 12:36, 10 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Doon Valley Railway

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"I am a Director of the company" is not a valid source for Wikipedia. We don't allow changes unless they are reliably sourced and verifiable. Claiming knowledge of something and using such for Wikipedia is considered original research and can be removed at any time. I'd also like to say that paid editing on Wikipedia without disclosure will get you blocked from editing, and that conflict-of-interest editing is heavily discouraged on Wikipedia. Chlod (say hi!) 12:35, 10 March 2021 (UTC)Reply