JDAllenCarrFan

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 Thank you. Hammersoft (talk) 13:12, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

• I have unblocked you after your successful username change. Please be aware that regardless of your username change, you need to abide by our conflict of interest guideline. I am also placing a standard paid editing notice below this with which you must comply. Please read it carefully. If you have questions, let me know. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 15:37, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Paid editing

Hello JDAllenCarrFan. 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 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.

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Please accept my apologies - I am not sure if I am replying properly or not. I am unfamiliar with editing wikipedia and don't expect to do it often at all.

Allen Carr was a dear friend of mine and although I am paid by Allen Carr's Easyway (I help people to stop smoking) I am certainly NOT paid to make edits on wikipedia etc. I have made one important correction (something untrue about the origin of Allen Carr's Easyway method) and updated some information about the books Allen Carr has published, the other formats of his method (such as online video programmes), and how his work survives his sad death in 2006. I don't expect to ever make further edits other than to correct any errors that may occur in the future.

I hope that this helps. Best wishes JD

• Thank you. I respect your desire to make his article correct. However, given your conflict of interest it would likely be best if you posted to Talk:Allen Carr with suggested changes to the article. Providing reliable, secondary sources to support the changes is critical. I'm happy to help. I've watchlisted the article and its talk page (meaning; when something changes I'll be alerted), so any suggestions you make at the talk page will be seen by me. If you have questions, let me know. Also, you can sign your posts by adding at "~~~~" to the end of your post. This places your username and a timestamp to the post. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:58, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your offer of help. I hope I have done it properly now but please forgive me if it is not so (I find the screens very difficult to deal with as I am dyslexic...it all just looks even more jumbled up than normal for me. Is this how I leave my user name? "~~~~"

• No, sorry :) You have to add the ~~~~ without the nowiki parts. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:33, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

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March 2021

Hello, your recent edits at Allen Carr produced a goodly number of ref-error messages. Please do not leave a page in a condition which makes reading awkward. References need to be placed within the ref tags thus.<ref>the reference goes here</ref> Please see WP:REFB for the guidelines to correctly adding references and also do not use 'bare urls' as this leaves them liable to 'link-rot'. I have removed references from the selected publications and if you need them, you can find them at User:Eagleash/sandbox#Allen Carr. (I will delete them after 28 days). Or you can find them in the diff of my edit. Also, please do not add commentary (talking) within articles use talk pages to communicate with other editors.

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Please study them carefully and please ensure that you have complied with the WP:COI and WP:PAID issues noted earlier. Thank you. Eagleash (talk) 14:55, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your help and apologies for all the errors. I won't be making any further edits - just wanted to update the page properly. Thanks JD (talk) 15:21, 23 March 2021 (UTC)JDAllenCarrFanJD (talk) 15:21, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

• You are very welcome to contribute in other areas of the project. There's innumerable ways to help! --Hammersoft (talk) 15:26, 23 March 2021 (UTC)