User talk:CattyDL2024

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Hello, CattyDL2024, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Art Smith (chef), seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia:
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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Tacyarg (talk) 22:23, 25 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Tacyarg -
 * Thanks for the reply - can you help me to understand what made it seem promotional? I took the information directly from the charity source, and even reduced the numbers that were listed from the charity page (which is best practice for AP style).
 * I am a female professor and I am preparing to teach female students for editing as part of "Women editing in Wikipedia" and I chose this post because it was recommended to me by Wikipedia and I am part of the food industry (I work for a charitable food non-profit.
 * I was planning to use the example in class, so it would be helpful to understand the reasoning - especially since what I edited was misinformation and inaccurate and I edited for accuracy.
 * Thank you. CattyDL2024 (talk) 01:42, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your reply. It was a couple of phrases. Firstly, the description of the food charity as focused on community health through the power of food and nutrition. The nonprofit provides cooking and nutrition classes, along with a curriculum that teaches community educators how to create healthy, culturally accessible and inexpensive meals. This did not read neutral to me, as it implies the charity is successful in its aims. It read as if it was something the organisation would say about itself, rather than being from a reliable secondary source. The edit also updated the number of children fed, and meals provided, by an order of magnitude without a reference. The other phrase was highly successful restaurant, which was not in neutral language (and not a direct quote from a reliable secondary source, which would have been fine).
 * The edit had been flagged up to me in Wikipedia recent changes by a filter which identifies changes to biographies of living people which may be poorly referenced, so that is how I came across it. I did not revert all your changes, except to delete "highly successful" and the unsourced statistics.
 * I hope this is useful. Of course, please do feel free to improve the article with further sources and more accurate information. Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 07:57, 26 March 2024 (UTC)