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Hello, Ratings5star, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Taking Out The Trash (talk) 18:36, 13 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Username same as a website name -- ratings5star.com

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Ratings5star", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because ratings5star.com. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you.

Wikipedia does not allow shared accounts, as this name is the same as that of a website, is this shared between operators of the website? If so, each of you need a separate Wikipedia account. And each person needs a personal account, not a corporate bureau account, so no Rating5Star-CFO, instead it needs to be a person, like "Rating5Star-CTO-yournamehere", or just "yournamehere"

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Conflict of interest -- paid advertising?

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Hello Ratings5star. 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 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 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:Ratings5star. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ratings5star|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. -- 65.92.247.66 (talk) 04:07, 19 March 2024 (UTC)Reply