User talk:Beechwood30

Declare any connection
Hello Beechwood30. 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 Western Marine Shipyard, and that 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:Beechwood30. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Worldbruce (talk) 05:26, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

I am not receiving any payment for editing this Wikipedia page. I am choosing to edit this page because I have visited this shipyard and am interesting in seeing it become more well-known to the world through this page. -beechwood30
 * Making the shipyard better known (advertising it) is the function of the company website, it is not an acceptable use of Wikipedia.


 * Article Western Marine Shipyard has a history of failing to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. It has repeatedly swung between blatantly promotional, and an outright attack piece. Removing all independent sources from the article and replacing its content with advertorial from the company website is disruptive and does not improve the encyclopedia.


 * If you have visited the shipyard as a potential customer, investor, or employee, you may have a conflict of interest, in which case you should not edit the article. In any case, editing a larger number and greater variety of articles will help you gain the experience that will allow you to contribute constructively. If you aren't sure where to begin, see Community portal for ways to help.


 * P.S. See Help:Introduction to talk pages for how to use talk pages effectively. --Worldbruce (talk) 15:10, 5 May 2018 (UTC)