User talk:CarlOttersen

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Hello, CarlOttersen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Our Lady of the Fountains (La Brigue). I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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November 2019
Hello CarlOttersen. The nature of your edits 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 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:CarlOttersen. 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, do not edit further until you answer this message. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 16:30, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Not paid for edit
I am not paid for the insertion of the photos i have uploaded to a couple of articles. As to the page for Berekum Arsenal FC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berekum_Arsenal_F.C.), I was not specifically paid for this edit, but did it as a courtesy for them as the page was many years out of date and factually incorrect. It therefore did a disservice to both them and anyone who read the page; the data are a matter of public record. I do hope this helps clarify the matter. Carl


 * Do you have any personal or professional relationship with Berekum Arsenal F.C.? GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 17:31, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Relationship with BAFC
I am a director and shareholder in SoccerExpo Agency Ltd. SoccerExpo Agency is Club Agent for Berekum Arsenal F.C. since August 3, 2019.

I am not an employee of either SoccerExpo or Berekum Arsenal FC. I have received no payment from either SoccerExpo or Berekum Arsenal FC.

My primary business is as a business advisor. My primary activity is photography and travel writing. My only interest in being registered with Wikipedia is, from time to time, to freely offer and post a few of my photographs for some articles as they can improve the readers' appreciation of the subject matter.

If you want to modify my author post attribution re Berekum Arsenal FC, then please do so. I was just seeking to make the Wikipedia post on Berekum Arsenal FC accurate: an issue of factual reporting, not profit.

I appreciate the necessary policy of ensuring an author's credentials. I don't appreciate the way the mail came across - as a threat of 'speedy deletion'. If in your wisdom you wish to delete my account, then at this stage I am so disillusioned with the heavy policing style adopted, then just do so. Im not a Russian/Ukrainian troll, and I am not using Wikipedia for commercial purposes.

Carl


 * Over here you claimed they are your clients so, as per WP:COI editors with a conflict of interest must declare their connection openly (see WP:DISCLOSE), and comply with all our policies. Regarding speedy deletion of your userpage, it was promotional and out of Commons scope imv. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 13:31, 2 November 2019 (UTC)