User talk:ChristopherSammut

December 2021
Hello ChristopherSammut. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to First Light - Short Film, 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:ChristopherSammut. 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. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:51, 15 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I am not getting paid and I am not expecting to get paid or even want to get paid. so there is nothing to disclose and I have no employer. thank you ChristopherSammut (talk) 19:42, 15 December 2021 (UTC)


 * it seems that you ignored my declaration and kept your subjective and uninformed statement. I decided not to battle this any further as the only battle not worth fighting is that against the ignorant. enjoy your power trip. ChristopherSammut (talk) 18:01, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Just passing by. This is not about power, but about Wikipedia guidelines.  The article was deleted as the result of a discussion- which you could have participated in, but did not. If you are the person named in the article as director, writer, actor, and other roles, you do indeed have a conflict of interest.  If you are not paid for your work and did it out of the goodness of your heart, okay, but that does not remove the conflict of interest. Wikipedia is not here to promote independent filmmaking, no matter how good a cause that might be, but to summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage state about films that meet the special Wikipedia definition of a notable film. If you are willing to collaborate and perhaps enlighten the "ignorant" that this film does indeed meet guidelines, you are free to do so.  If you just want to name call and leave, that's your decision too.  I understand that things like deletion can be frustrating, but this is a community project with guidelines to abide by. 331dot (talk) 18:10, 16 December 2021 (UTC)


 * 331dot. I sincerely appreciate your comment and I fully understand where you are coming from. The term "ignorant" was not used as a name call but as as reference to the fact that I have been unjustly accused of getting paid by someone to do the edits and not declaring such. That goes against my integrity and my attempt to get things straight was not acknowledged. But I do understand the reason why the article was deleted and I humbly accept that. But only for the reasons you mentioned and not for any other reason. once again thank you for the insight and I hope there are more like you in the world of Wikipedia. (as so far I have met none) ChristopherSammut (talk) 18:55, 16 December 2021 (UTC)