Hi Kaldari I understand To answer your first question No I am not currently being paid to edit any article I understand the concerns so I ll just go over my contribution history Mark Portmann Created 2 years ago from youthful exuberance Babtunde Rotimi I haven t contacted him but being a winner of a writing award myself I was interested in the news article and turned to Wikipedia for information on him When I found that there was none I decided to create a page EmbroidMe Paid to create the page which I submitted through the AFC to ensure that it fit Wiki s guidelines Gailen David Like Babtunde I was interested in the subject because I d seen a couple of his mock videos UassistMe Contacted by the party that offered me the EmbroidMe project to see if I could help with the page s creation I submitted it to the AFC it was turned down so I politely informed the party that the project was a bust Mariana Bierkna It was listed in Wiki Commons as an article for request that was dated by over a year Started work on it with help from members of the IRC who sent across PDF files and access to a librarian IonRoad My latest attempt to create a page that was worthy of at least a C class I chose the subject because it seemed well covered and clearly within the notability requirements of Wikipedia I did some work for the owner of PhotographyTalk but after I was warned that my efforts amounted to spam I abandoned the project and was not paid I believe he hired someone else after that Before I was hired to work on the UassistMe and EmbroidMe project I was made to sign an NDA Considering that this is an open forum I m hoping these disclosures will be deleted I ve also been approached at least four times by external parties who wanted to have their articles included in Wikipedia But after reviewing their companies I informed them that they did not meet the requirements of Wikipedia I believe this answers 2 out of Seraphims questions as to the last why have you created so many articles which appear to be promotional and what plans do you have to be remedy it my only defence is that I did not know that the articles appeared promotional because multiple editors in the IRC channel assured me that they weren t when I requested a review Regarding my plans of addressing this problem I believe my proposed probational terms combined with those suggested by Kaldari and Nick gives me more than enough time to hone my editorial skills Regards