User talk:DBRGoodman

Please check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cincotti. Do you think the page could use more citations? Thank you--Princess Leah J (talk) 21:22, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Happy to check it out and see if I can help contribute. Best wishes--DBRGoodman (talk) 15:23, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

February 2020
Hello DBRGoodman. 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:DBRGoodman. 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. Praxidicae (talk) 19:31, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

I never have and never will take any form of compensation to edit articles on Wikipedia. I am by no means an experienced editor but I have enjoyed editing a few articles of musicians I follow that appear in need of editing. I actually learned a lot from a few of the edits you recently made and am continuing to learn. I never placed a citation /source without checking to see if it was being used throughout wikipedia first. While that clearly is not full proof, I am confused why some of the sources you deleted are being used as sources for hundreds of articles on Wikipedia but then are not suitable for this article. I will definitely try to be more careful selecting reliable sources. Anyway, any insight or help improving this article or my other pet project article Peter Cincotti would be very appreciated. Best wishes, DBRGoodman (talk) 20:18, 8 February 2020 (UTC)