User talk:Davidmprior78

Spamming and conflict of interest concerns
Hello. It appears that your main activity on Wikipedia has been adding links to the website networks.h-net.org. This is a useful website which is widely cited on Wikipedia, but this activity raises some important issues.

First, please do not add external links directly to articles. Ideally, if a specific site is useful as a reference, it can be added as a reference which directly support a specific statement. This is to prevent original research, which is not appropriate. For more information on this please see Reliable sources and Help:Referencing for beginners. Links can also, with caution, be added to 'external links' sections. As Manual of Style/Layout explains, this is often an area of dispute, so if in doubt, this should be discussed on the specific article's talk page.

Second, since you are what's known as a single purpose account, you should be aware of Wikipedia's guidelines on editing with a conflict of interest. If you think a specific link at h-net.org is useful, and you are involved with that site, you should instead propose a change on the article's talk page. I should also inform you that if you are compensated for editing Wikipedia, you must disclose this in order to comply with Wikipedia's terms of service, per Paid-contribution disclosure. If you are not compensated for editing, you may still have a conflict, so if you think this is a possibility, please review the above guidelines (as well as Plain and simple conflict of interest guide). If this doesn't apply to you, please accept my apologies.

Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 21:07, 19 September 2019 (UTC)