User talk:DerekMarques

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Paid editors must declare their relationships
Hello DerekMarques. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Royce White. 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. 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, 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:DerekMarques. 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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. —C.Fred (talk) 21:53, 28 May 2017 (UTC)


 * I am not being paid for these suggestions, I met Royce and got to talk to him one and as someone who also suffers from Mental Health I feel the wrong perception is being made of him.


 * So you are acting on his behalf in an unpaid capacity? I refer to the edit summary of this edit, where you refer to yourself as "his agent". —C.Fred (talk) 14:13, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

If you do not allow us to edit Royce's page with correct information we want his page deleted off wikipedia as the wrong information you have on his page is hurting his character.

Sourcing information
If you are going to change Royce White's birth place to Saint Paul, you need a valid source on it. His Iowa State bio, his NBA.com bio, etc ALL say Minneapolis. There needs to be a source that specifically calls out he was born in Saint Paul to the degree where it overrides the Minneapolis information that is EVERYWHERE. Rikster2 (talk) 03:39, 8 June 2017 (UTC)