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Hello, I'm
Materialscientist. I noticed that in
this edit to
Ruff Kid, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an
edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. Thank you.
Materialscientist (
talk)
10:04, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
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Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that
this edit performed by you, on the page
Ruff Kid, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:
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Hello, I'm
Magnolia677. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article,
Kitwe, but you didn't provide a
reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to
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Magnolia677 (
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11:28, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello Patrick Chipandwe. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Ruff Kid, 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.
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Magnolia677 (
talk)
12:28, 30 May 2024 (UTC)