User talk:Familton Fenn

Apologies for the erroneous block - I have reversed it and apologised in the block log too. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 21:27, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

June 2023
Hello Familton Fenn. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to High Point Market, 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:Familton Fenn. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:46, 17 June 2023 (UTC)


 * My changes are less biased than what was there. I created the original post many years ago with outdated and local news sources. I replaced them with newer, more accurate or more original sources. Familton Fenn (talk) 18:30, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Please state "if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed". Magnolia677 (talk) 18:56, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at High Point, North Carolina shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you do not violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.  Acroterion   (talk)   17:52, 17 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I am being called disruptive for updating a section I created more than a decade ago. And there is a person undoing my work without explanation. And I am engaging in this war? Familton Fenn (talk) 18:31, 17 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Please read WP:OWN and WP:BRD. Your edits have been challenged, you are now at the obligatory "discuss" part of BRD, and are expected to do so rather than just reverting again. Please use the talkpage to explain how you think the content is appropriate weight.  Acroterion   (talk)   18:41, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
 * My changes were deleted because they were about a "trade fair" not the economy of the city. A trade fair is part of the economy of the city. So I made it explicitly about the ownership of the downtown to compromise. Now, to delete information about the new ownership of the downtown by Bain and Blackstone in an "economy" section seems completely unfounded. I created the original post many years ago with sources that are now outdated and especially local. I replaced them with newer, more accurate or more or authoritative sources. Familton Fenn (talk) 18:46, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Go to the talkpage and make your case. I am not the one you need to convince, I'm just here to remind you that you can'y just revert and communicate by edit summary alone,and the WP:BURDEN rests with the editor making the changes.  Acroterion   (talk)   18:49, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello. Aren't I on the talk page? Could you give me a link? This is where talk takes me. Familton Fenn (talk) 00:50, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
 * In Magnolia677's "Revision as of 23:01, 14 June 2023" they removed paragraphs that editors have left there for 20 years. I am just trying to update them with current sources. Magnolia677 is just deleting them. Again, I am updating what editors have left there for 20 years. Familton Fenn (talk) 01:10, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to High Point Market, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Familton Fenn, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Please respond to this warning. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:38, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at High Point, North Carolina, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. 'With this edit at High Point, North Carolina, you continue add unsourced content back into the article, writing "at the time owned 14 buildings totaling 6.7 million square feet, over 50% of the downtown", and claimed that it was support by this source, which it is not. Please revert your edit, and stop your disruptive editing.' Magnolia677 (talk) 11:45, 18 June 2023 (UTC)