User talk:BongoNufin
Hello, I'm Lefcentreright. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Bloemfontein have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. Lefcentreright Discuss 16:07, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hi. Just running a little campaign, I will revert back to original tomorrow is that fine? BongoNufin (talk) 16:11, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Lefcentreright.
- Are you the one editing the Bloem Wiki?
- Could I kindly request for your help just to drive walkability for Bloemfontein. I just have a campaign that sort of has to highlight Bloemfontein as the location to be. We just calling it BloemFontaste, if you could grant me 24-48 hours that would be amazing. Are you open to that? I also want to use this short disruption for a case study in advertising. BongoNufin (talk) 16:49, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
Hello BongoNufin. 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:BongoNufin. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BongoNufin|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. Omphalographer (talk) 20:10, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on User:BongoNufin/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Omphalographer (talk) 20:08, 21 March 2025 (UTC)