User talk:David Fish

Hello, David Fish, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Dr. Awesome Doge (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. jlwoodwa (talk) 21:22, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

@Jlwoodwa: Thank you for the message and for your work maintaining the integrity of Wikipedia.

1. I confirm that both User:David Fish and User:Dr. Awesome Doge are my accounts.
2. I apologize for unintentionally violating the multiple account policy. I now fully understand the rules and will comply moving forward.
3. I will no longer use the "Dr. Awesome Doge" account and will continue contributing only via this account (David Fish).
4. Since I originally created and used the username Dr. Awesome Doge, I would like to kindly request a username usurpation so I may consolidate all contributions under a single identity.

Please let me know if I should proceed with a formal request on Meta-Wiki or if it can be handled locally. I appreciate your guidance.

Thank you again for your understanding and support.

— David Fish (talk) 07:42, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

I don't see why usurpation would be necessary, but if you want to do that, m:SRUC would be the place to request it. jlwoodwa (talk) 18:55, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

Hello, David Fish. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Dr. Awesome Doge, a page you created, has not been edited in at least five months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 19:06, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, David Fish. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Dr. Awesome Doge".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:30, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello David Fish. The nature of your edits 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:David Fish. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=David Fish|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. asilvering (talk) 02:56, 15 November 2025 (UTC)