Mrskindrataylor

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Clay Faulkner House

Hi, i saw some editing go back and forth at Clay Faulkner House. Could you possibly please see Talk:Clay Faulkner House and comment there? Editor Sphilbrick is actually a good egg, and I bet they will help improve the article, despite their having rolled back an edit of yours which they disagreed with. And I and others want to help develop it, including using a source which you used. Any which way, i am glad you are contributing. Cheers, --Doncram (talk) 19:09, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Mrskindrataylor. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Clay Faulkner House, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 00:09, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey, there is no serious problem here. Mrskindrataylor has in fact politely, properly disclosed connection to the business, in their posting at Help (easy to find in their edit history) and nobody is hiding anything. Yes that means they technically need to follow Wikipedia guidelines about wp:COI when editing about this subject (though they have no COI with respect to many other unrelated topics). The COI guidelines just basically say you need to disclose your relationship, and that you need to be polite/considerate and not fight to put overtly promotional stuff in, if other editors are objecting. You certainly are allowed to fix factually incorrect stuff and basically you can add factual stuff supported in sources and you certainly are allowed to say anything and everything at the Talk page, including suggesting any text at all for the article. --Doncram (talk) 00:32, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey, another thing: a block of text added to the article was apparently removed because it appeared to be a copyright violation to the website of the owner of the place. If in fact the owners of copyright (the owners of the website) give permission for the text to be used, which I gather they would, then the text can in fact be used. However you have to follow a process to get it verified that the text is released for use in Wikipedia. You must understand that we get lots of cases where people copy stuff from websites without any permission, so we have to have some process to sort out when permission is really given. That is by the wp:OTRS process, try following that link, i think it brings you to a page where you can begin confidential correspondence by regular email, with qualified/trained/competent specialist volunteers, who can give advice and will request whatever is needed to prove you have permission. I am guessing that the owner sending an email stating they give permission from the domain that has the website is proof enough, or something like that. On the other hand, it is also perfectly possible and perhaps better for the Wikipedia article to say much of the same stuff but in different words, using the website as one of its sources. --Doncram (talk) 03:06, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

I think you might need to declare your WP:Paid status in editing the article about the organisation that has tasked you with improving the article. Dbfirs 08:48, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

I am not a paid editor. Editor Mrskindrataylor has disclosed, as you are aware, so it is obtuse for you to insist something further. So This is getting ridiculous. I think you might need to get lost. :) --Doncram (talk) 15:37, 28 September 2018 (UTC)