User talk:KristenDuever

Welcome![edit]

Hello, KristenDuever, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page London, Ontario did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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London, Ontario[edit]

I must be missing it, but where in this source does it mention London? Thank you! Magnolia677 (talk) 19:01, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

On this page: http://worldseikido.com/html/about/founders.html

It says: In October 1987 Master Petkovic opened the Victoria School of True Self Defence in London, Ontario, with the assistance of many black belts and friends from the local martial arts community.

It goes on to explain how this became the first Seikido school.KristenDuever (talk) 19:40, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah...feel free to add your edit back using the link to that source. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:44, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thank you! KristenDuever (talk)

December 2019[edit]

Hello KristenDuever. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to London, Ontario, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:KristenDuever. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=KristenDuever|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. Magnolia677 (talk) 15:10, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I can assure you that I am NOT receiving, nor do I expect to receive any financial compensation for my edit. If there is something I have missed, or another way that I should have written it, I would appreciate the feedback. KristenDuever (talk)

Hello! Just to clarify, being paid is only one part of COI. On Wikipedia, if you know the subjects or have a professional connection to them, you are considered to have a conflict of interest. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 23:01, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 23:03, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:KristenDuever/sandbox[edit]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Bkissin (talk) 18:43, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]