User talk:Daverosborough

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Daverosborough. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 16:15, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Daverosborough, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Translation. See also Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 16:16, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Recent deletions?
Can you please help me understand what the issue was with my company page edits? I handle the SEO for UHOne.com / Golden Rule Insurance Company and would like to update this information as soon as possible. The current information is misleading our customers. Thank you.
 * No one owns this page, you do not have a right to dictate what is written on it and your best bet would be to walk away. Us volunteer editors often resent that paid or conflict of interest editors write non-neutrally, displaying obvious bias toward themselves or their clients, and write promotionally. A neutral point of view is one of the five pillars of Wikipedia, and is non-negotiable. All of your edits (besides being copied) are being added to promote your company. The encyclopedia is here for knowledge, it isn't here to be used as a personal website.
 * Regardless if you feel the need to ignore my good advice above, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Following this, you should make WP:Edit requests on the articles talk page. Let me make this very clear: Wikipedia strongly discourages paid editing. Volunteer editors are often resentful when paid editors ask for help because they say that they "need" it for their clients.  The encyclopedia doesn't need to help your clients, even if your clients need business, which they can find by advertising on their own web sites.  So follow the advice that I have given. Us volunteer editors will be glad to answer questions about Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and we will review your submissions.  It is your job to write your submissions verifiably and neutrally.HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 16:42, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
Hello Daverosborough. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Golden Rule Insurance Company, 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:Daverosborough. 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. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 16:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Recent Deletions?
Sorry about that, I'm new to this. So if I'm currently employed by Golden Rule Insurance Company, I should add the tag you mentioned to my user profile?

I appreciate your help. Please let me know if there are any other items that need to be fixed.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daverosborough (talk • contribs)
 * Hi Daverosborough. Yes, please add the tag and make WP:Edit requests. As well, please note that I will only be notified of a message if you ping me and add 4 tidles (~) after the message to sign it. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 16:47, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

I've added the tag and created my user page. Can you help me confirm that it is formatted properly? Daverosborough (talk) 20:06, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I've fixed it, thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 20:09, 28 February 2020 (UTC)