User talk:Unathletic24

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Minor and not-so-minor edits

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Hi Unathletic24! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 10:11, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

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Hello, Unathletic24. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Edmunds (company), 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. All the edits that I looked at are either additions of promotional information to Edmunds (company) or citations to Edmunds publications. Please explain--and disclose. Drmies (talk) 21:17, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

• Mr.choppers, you've reverted this editor (on Ford Fiesta), though not for spamming--but your edit summary makes it clear how inappropriate these links are. Unathletic, I'm making my way through your edits, and with every edit it's becoming more clear to me that you are here to spam. The sooner you address these concerns, the better it is for you. Drmies (talk) 21:29, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
  • Drmies - I hadn't quite realized, but reviewing their edit history makes things pretty clear. Unathletic, respond and please change your behavior or you will definitely be blocked. Best,  Mr.choppers | ✎  21:34, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
• Mr.choppers and Drmies, Can you please explain why adding facts with cited sources a COI? Awards that Edmunds has won are not a biased event. These are actual awards that the company has won and each one had a link to the page of the publisher's website that the award is mentioned on. Thank you.Unathletic24 (talk) 22:40, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
  • Drmies and Drmies, I have added a COI badge to my user page Unathletic24 (talk) 22:50, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
    • Thank you. That's a good start. Next up: making neutral edits and not inserting spam links. Because those details, which were little more than trim updates and other minor things, were really just excuses to inserting commercial links like this one. Edmunds is NOT a secondary source whom we should cite as if it were a journalistic outfit.

      And if you wish to help improve Edmunds (company), I suggest you place edit requests on the article talk page. All these awards, well, proper secondary sources should be cited to prove that they actually matter. Like this, that's not a secondary source: Inc may think their "award" means something, but that's beside the point. Same with the "greatworkplace" things. And please do not use inline URLs: cite them properly. You know how to do that, because you used them for those Edmunds links. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 00:46, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Is this you: Bolivianpretzels? Same useless kinds of edits adding Edmunds pages.  Mr.choppers | ✎  23:05, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Well spotted, User:Mr.choppers. I can't prove they're the same; it's more likely MEATing. I have the feeling that possibly Edmunds pays a whole bunch of people to make these kinds of edits. I blocked that account; if they want to challenge that, they can. Unathletic, beware. Drmies (talk) 01:51, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Hey, look at this. I guess I should take this to AN or something. Drmies (talk) 01:55, 29 July 2021 (UTC)