User talk:DSN 276

David Neal (British Army officer)
Thanks for contributing to the article David Neal (British Army officer). However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable through reliable sources, preferably using inline citations. Please help by adding more sources to the article you edited, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the claims (see here for how to do inline referencing). If you need further help, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia, or ask at the Teahouse, or just ask me. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 18:31, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello DSN 276. 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 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:DSN 276. 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. Gyrostat (talk) 16:01, 21 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I am not being paid or compensated to edit this page. Thank you. DSN 276 (talk) 06:04, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I am not being paid or compensated to edit this page. Thank you. DSN 276 DSN 276 (talk) 16:03, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * But are you connected to David Neal, even if you aren't being paid - do you know him, or are related to him, in real life? This is also a conflict of interest that needs managing carefully. MarcGarver (talk) 09:34, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, I am David Neal so I was just updating Wikipedia information about myself. Is this permissible? I always assumed since I have used my initials (DSN) that this would be clear. Please advise. Many thanks. Dave DSN 276 (talk) 11:41, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * It is permissible, but I recommend you follow the guidance in Autobiography on how to manage a conflict of interest. MarcGarver (talk) 10:01, 4 March 2024 (UTC)