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Happy editing! Cheers, Grayfell (talk) 03:32, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date. You have shown interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Due to past disruption in this topic area, the community has authorised uninvolved administrators to impose contentious topics restrictions—such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks—on editors who do not strictly follow Misplaced Pages's policies, expected standards of behaviour, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic. For additional information, please see the guidance on these sanctions. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

David Gerard (talk) 19:19, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

December 2023

Hello Codeconjurer777. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Misplaced Pages'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 Misplaced Pages to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Misplaced Pages 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:Codeconjurer777. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Codeconjurer777|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. David Gerard (talk) 16:34, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Verbosity

Please take this gently but it would be worth reading WP:TEXTWALL and WP:SUCCINCT. You've posted something close to 5000 words across 3 talk pages, I suspect a more concise version of your core points would get better results. E.G. Your "statement of Non-COI" section could have been a few sentences saying you don't have one and that you're not related to the creator of the ERC-721 article. It doesn't need the extended discussions of guidelines, your thoughts on article quality, repeated assertions of your motivations for writing the statement and so on.

I don't mean this to come off impolite but I think a lot of editors are going to bounce off what you wrote due to its wordiness. JaggedHamster (talk) 18:11, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Frankly, it was exhausting doing all that but I felt it necessary. Quality over quantity (in an ironic twist of the meaning), it's better quality in its elaboration I believe. However, I'll consider your feedback with regard to how to best engage in a collaborative manner for the future. Codeconjurer777 (talk) 18:19, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Standard cryptocurrency/blockchain notice

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date. You have shown interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Due to past disruption in this topic area, the community has authorised uninvolved administrators to impose contentious topics restrictions—such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks—on editors who do not strictly follow Misplaced Pages's policies, expected standards of behaviour, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic. For additional information, please see the guidance on these sanctions. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

David Gerard (talk) 10:19, 3 February 2024 (UTC)