User talk:MedievalSam1

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Happy editing! Em-mustapha ^{User | talk} 16:25, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion[edit]

Your sole contribution so far has been to add the book Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity as "Further reading" to a bunch of articles. This smacks of self-promotion, and the fact that the book does not appear to be a significantly important history, is inappropriate in any case. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 16:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020[edit]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 17:06, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. If you are Samuel Drake, author of the book Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity I would suggest you stop editing and read this about conflicts of interests. Thanks. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 17:09, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There's a discussion about your editing ongoing at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents[edit]

Based on your single-minded editing, I have opened a discussion of your editing at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#"Further reading" spam by User:MedievalSam1. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 17:11, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020[edit]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 17:19, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, MedievalSam1. 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:

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 WP: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.

In the specific case here, if you would like to suggest your books as sources via a friendly note on the article Talk pages you are welcome to do so, but adding your own work directly into articles is considered spamming and is not welcome.

Thank you. Guy (help!) 10:17, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Friendly advice - in order to get unblocked, you need to accept that your edits, even though in good faith were wrong and promise not to repeat such behaviour. It may well be that for some articles, a link to the book is appropriate, but that is for others to decide. Wikiproject Cornwall members will be happy to discuss the addition of a link on nominated articles. An indefinite block does not mean "forever". Please engage on this talk page and it is highly likely the block will be lifted. Mjroots (talk) 14:00, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]