Terradoter

November 2022

Hello Terradoter. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Scott Barley, 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.

Paid advocates are very 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 extremely 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:Terradoter. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Terradoter|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. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 23:09, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi Rosguill. I am not and never have been compensated for my edits. I do not know Scott Barley personally. However I am an avid film viewer and a follower of his films. I am new to editing Wikipedia though so any feedback how to resolve this issue would be good. Thanks. Terradoter (talk) 23:57, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt response. Your explanation makes sense, and my concerns about the article are primarily related to other editors editing the page at the same time as you. If your only connection to Barley is interest in his work, just make sure to follow neutrality guidelines and you should be fine. If you have any questions, I would suggest you bring them to the teahouse, our help forum for new editors. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 00:40, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

I will, thanks very much. There’s a lot more to to editing pages than I could have imagined. Thanks for your help. Terradoter (talk) 00:43, 7 November 2022 (UTC)