Bob C. Alexander
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August 2025
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Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources to see how to add references to an article. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 20:15, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at History of the bicycle, you may be blocked from editing. You seem to keep inserting unsourced and arbitrary information across numerous articles. Please read the policies provided in these warnings. ZimZalaBim talk 20:27, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at History of the bicycle. Please heed these warnings. ZimZalaBim talk 20:36, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Joyous! Noise! 20:38, 25 August 2025 (UTC)AI text?
editHello - given the speed and simliarity of some of your (reverted) insertions into articles, I'm a bit worried you might be using a LLM to generate summary text. If that's the case, I advise you to read WP:LLM which details why this can be problematic. If I'm mistaken, then please understand I'm just being cautious. I hope you find a way to make constructive contributions after your block expires. --ZimZalaBim talk 20:45, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
September 2025
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Hello, I'm TonySt. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the main body of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center. Generally, any relevant external links should be listed in an "External links" section at the end of the article and meet the external links guidelines. Links within the body of an article should be internal wikilinks. 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. tony 23:27, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
- Further to this, you seem to be improperly using <nowiki> </nowiki> code, which further exacerbates the problems with your recent edits. Please see WP:REF for help with references. --ZimZalaBim talk 01:50, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
Hello, I'm ZimZalaBim, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Lester Center for Entrepreneurship, it appears that you added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Please stop adding random "Updates" like this. Please read the various policies already provided to help guide appropriate content for the eneyclopedia, and how to cite your sources. ZimZalaBim talk 01:45, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
- To repeat, you were recently blocked for "Persistent addition of unsourced content and vague commentary", and now you seem to be back at it. You risk another block if you're not able to re-think your approach to contributing to this encyclopedia. --ZimZalaBim talk 01:56, 4 September 2025 (UTC)
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Managing a conflict of interest
edit Hello, Bob C. Alexander. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Prosperity Now, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Sumanuil. (talk to me) 04:08, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note! I’m not connected with Prosperity Now - just editing to improve the article with reliable info. Bob C. Alexander (talk) 21:06, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
Minor edits
edit Hi Bob C. Alexander! I noticed that you recently made an edit and marked it as "minor", but it may not have been. On Wikipedia, "minor edit" refers only to superficial edits that could never be disputed, such as fixing typos or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not minor, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you.
You should also watch the promotional tone of your edits. It doesn't seem that you are intending it, but a lot of the text you're adding sounds promotional. Jay8g [V•T•E] 22:04, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Jay8g, thanks for the reminder and feedback! I’ll make sure to avoid marking non-trivial edits as minor moving forward. I also appreciate the note about tone — my intent isn’t promotional, and I’ll keep future edits strictly neutral and encyclopedic. Bob C. Alexander (talk) 20:58, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
November 2025
editHi, Bob C. Alexander. I've reverted a couple of your edits because I couldn't see that the sources you added backed up the text - to National Outdoor Leadership School and American Management Association. Possibly you meant to cite other pages on their websites? In any case, if you can cite secondary sources rather than those published by the organisations themselves, that's always preferable. Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 21:53, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Tacyarg, thanks for letting me know. I appreciate you pointing that out. I’ll review those edits and make sure any additions are supported by reliable secondary sources. It’s possible I linked the wrong pages, so I’ll double-check the citations before reintroducing anything. Thanks again for the guidance. Bob C. Alexander (talk) 19:30, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to unconstructively edit Wikipedia using a large language model (an "AI chatbot" or other application using such technology), as you did at Business Executives for National Security, you may be blocked from editing. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 18:45, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
- Seconded. @Bob C. Alexander your editing history shows that you are using LLMs to make high-frequency additions to articles, can you please stop doing this right away. NicheSports (talk) 18:50, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the feedback. I will slow down and be more careful with my edits. I’ll make sure any future contributions are fully written in my own words, properly sourced from high-quality secondary references, and follow all Wikipedia guidelines. Bob C. Alexander (talk) 19:14, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hi, Bob C. Alexander. Your replies here, including that last one, are still reading as AI-generated. Please don't use LLMs. Tacyarg (talk) 20:00, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Bob C. Alexander two edits since this reply have been unsupported by provided sources while carrying a promotional tone that indicates continued model use. Continuing to make such edits after warnings is highly likely to end up with sanctions being applied. Please desist. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 01:42, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the feedback. I will slow down and be more careful with my edits. I’ll make sure any future contributions are fully written in my own words, properly sourced from high-quality secondary references, and follow all Wikipedia guidelines. Bob C. Alexander (talk) 19:14, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
Hello Bob C. Alexander. 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.
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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:Bob C. Alexander. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bob C. Alexander|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. You have added 16+ citations to a podcast by an "Adam Mendler", even when said podcast does not adequately support accompanying text, or make sense for inclusion. Please also note that Wikipedia is not for promotion. Thank you. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 05:35, 23 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the message. I’m not being paid or compensated for any of my edits. I’m still learning how to edit Wikipedia and was just trying to improve articles based on sources I found on Google or AI search. I understand now that some of the citations I added, especially related to Adam Mendler’s podcast, may not have been the best fit or may have looked promotional. That wasn’t my intention, and I appreciate the clarification. I won’t make further edits until I fully understand the guidelines. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Bob C. Alexander (talk) 20:04, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
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