RebeccaMRosenthal

August 2024

Hello, I'm Theroadislong. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Bizarre (film), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 21:38, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know! I'll add a link now. RebeccaMRosenthal (talk) 21:40, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Theroadislong, I'm not a paid advocate. Darlinda Just Darlinda is my stage name and I've been a performer in NYC for 20 years, so I'm just trying to put the correct information on the page and comply with all the rules. I hope that clears things up! Thanks, Rebecca RebeccaMRosenthal (talk) 22:22, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello RebeccaMRosenthal. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Darlinda Just Darlinda, 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:RebeccaMRosenthal. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RebeccaMRosenthal|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. C F A 💬 22:18, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Wikipedia). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 22:44, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Ahh, thanks for clearing that up, just adding "{{connected contributor}}" isn't sufficient? RebeccaMRosenthal (talk) 22:51, 11 August 2024 (UTC)