User talk:HenrySmith25

Welcome!

Hello, HenrySmith25, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page B. K. S. Iyengar did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome!  Mutt Lunker (talk) 11:40, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Possible Conflict of Interest

I note from your edit that you may have a Conflict of Interest with Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center. If you are connected in any way with that center, please be aware of Wikipedia's policy (as linked), and that Wikipedia takes both conflict of interest and undisclosed paid editing extremely seriously. In particular, you must not make any edit, cited or not – and all additions must be reliably cited, as you have already been told – that is promotional or intended in any way to further the interest of any company or organisation. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:53, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

September 2024

Hello HenrySmith25. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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:HenrySmith25. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=HenrySmith25|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. Annh07 (talk) 10:14, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Henry, I am saddened to see that you have completely ignored my friendly guidance just above, and have now moved to confronting Wikipedia's core policies, getting a formal warning for your pains. Were you to continue with this conflict of interest, here or on any other article, you will swiftly be blocked permanently from editing, which would be a pity. Please study the policy, and note that it is core to Wikipedia because the encyclopedia would be destroyed if it were not enforced. Thank you for your understanding. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:26, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Your edit to Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center 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 information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. 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. — Diannaa (talk) 21:51, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

November 2024

Your edit to Kaivalyadhama 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 information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. 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. Diannaa (talk) 20:32, 9 November 2024 (UTC)