User talk:Bonsaiburglar

November 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Baraboo High School. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Longhair\talk 20:09, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The discussion is about the topic Baraboo High School. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:18, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, Bonsaiburglar, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Baraboo High School, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms our use and policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:19, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

November 2018
Hello Bonsaiburglar. 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 Baraboo High School, 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:Bonsaiburglar. 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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:19, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Baraboo High School, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Longhair\talk 20:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Baraboo High School shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Longhair\talk 20:24, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Non-Paid Disclosure
I, Bonsaiburglar, am not being paid for any of my edits. All edits done are entirely mine! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bonsaiburglar (talk • contribs) 2018-11-12T20:30:43 (UTC)


 * Hi Bonsaiburglar, thank you for the clarification. You may have got entangled in a conflict that has nothing to do with you. On the "conflict of interest noticeboard", I have now added a further question for clarification. Answering this question, although you are not required to, may explain the whole situation. Please see Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:37, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

A belated welcome!


Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Bonsaiburglar. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
 * Introduction
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Help pages
 * How to write a great article
 * Editor's index to Wikipedia

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Questions, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:14, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Interested in a talk page archive?
Hi Bonsaiburglar,

to get rid of these resolved messages, you may like to delete them, or to archive them. I personally prefer archival, but deletion is obviously easier. For deletion, simply remove whatever you want to from this page. You are always allowed to do so, per the following guideline: User_pages

If you, like me, prefer to keep an archive instead, I will happily create one for you. It would look like on my talk page, and archiving would automatically be done by a bot. The bot automatically archives old discussions, for example after 90 days, or when you tell it to do so. To tell the bot to archive a section, simply add  anywhere in the section.

Best regards! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:35, 12 November 2018 (UTC)