User talk:Kevin Hamburg

Hello, I'm HMSLavender. I noticed that you recently removed content from Alkagesta without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 03:45, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Alkagesta. Your edits continue to appear to constitute vandalism and have been automatically reverted.

• If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Note that human editors do monitor recent changes to Wikipedia articles, and administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism.
• ClueBot NG makes very few mistakes, but it does happen. If you believe the change you made should not have been considered as unconstructive, please read about it, report it here, remove this warning from your talk page, and then make the edit again.
• If you need help, please see the Introduction to Wikipedia, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, place {{Help me}} on your talk page and someone will drop by to help.
• The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Alkagesta was changed by Kevin Hamburg (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.921164 on 2026-02-22T03:49:26+00:00

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 03:49, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I'm KylieTastic. An edit that you recently made to Alkagesta seemed to be generated using a large language model (an "AI chatbot" or other application using such technology). Text produced by these applications is usually unsuitable for an encyclopedia, and may contain factually inaccurate statements, fictitious citations, or other problems. You should instead read reliable sources and then summarize those in your own words. Your edit may have been reverted. If you want to practice editing, please use your sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. KylieTastic (talk) 10:18, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello Kevin Hamburg. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Alkagesta, 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:Kevin Hamburg. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kevin Hamburg|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. Dreamyshade (talk) 18:56, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

You created what appears to be a Wikipedia:Requests for page protection at Wikipedia talk:Administrator noticeboard/Incidents which has been deleted per Wikipedia:Speedy_deletion#G8. If a request meets the Wikipedia:Protection policy please request at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, this one did not as the onlyrecent disruption was from yourself. KylieTastic (talk) 10:12, 27 February 2026 (UTC)