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Once again, welcome! Fettlemap (talk) 19:35, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks! Fettlemap (talk) 04:24, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
July 2021
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Please do not add or change content, as you did at Compton, California, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 10:10, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
January 2023
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Hello DeanLJones. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Compton, California, 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.
Paid advocates are very 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 extremely 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:DeanLJones. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=DeanLJones|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. Magnolia677 (talk) 19:50, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
January 2024
[edit] Hello, I'm Philipnelson99. I noticed that in this edit to Compton, California, 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. Philipnelson99 (talk) 21:41, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
If you think the census information is outdated, then update it. It is not helpful to remove the entire section. ... discospinster talk 22:02, 4 January 2024 (UTC)