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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! S Philbrick (Talk) 17:01, 10 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Hello, Eblaisem. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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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. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:0:0:0:7E59 ( talk) 17:32, 11 March 2022 (UTC) reply

• Also, you restored copyright violation content (promotional, for good measure), after another editor removed it. So,

One of your recent edits has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. 2601:188:180:B8E0:0:0:0:7E59 ( talk) 17:39, 11 March 2022 (UTC) reply

• • Using multiple accounts, your only intent at Wikipedia has been to add promotional content and copyright violations. You've been reverted by three editors, and have shown no indication of responding or acknowledging your WP:COI. Hence,

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising. 2601:188:180:B8E0:0:0:0:7E59 ( talk) 17:45, 11 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Hi there, the information you're reverting it to is very incorrect and does not highlight Andela properly - we are not a recruiting agency. Can you specify where I've gone wrong. I see I can't link to Andela's page, I'll delete those. But I've added references. I'd love to get more insight. Thank you. Eblaisem ( talk) 18:46, 11 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Where you've 'gone wrong' is clearly explained above. Have you actually read WP:COI or the guidelines regarding copyright laws, Eblaisem? Do you understand the difference between objective encyclopedic prose and advertising? And who is "we?" Though you may make suggestions at its talk page, please don't touch the article again. Thank you, 2601:188:180:B8E0:0:0:0:7E59 ( talk) 18:52, 11 March 2022 (UTC) reply

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. 2601:188:180:B8E0:0:0:0:7E59 ( talk) 18:58, 11 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Hello Eblaisem. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Andela, 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:Eblaisem. The template {{ Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Eblaisem|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. -- Drm310 🍁 ( talk) 19:02, 11 March 2022 (UTC) reply