User talk:Flip Field

January 2021
Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Newcastle Grammar School. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. ''If you are going to remove the maintenance templates you had better not add promotional puffery such as that. And please read WP:MINOR'' Meters (talk) 06:14, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

February 2021
Hello Flip Field. 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:Flip Field. 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. Blablubbs | talk 10:59, 3 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your help, Blablubbs. I'm a complete novice at editing Wikipedia pages ~ you'll see that in the stats ~ so my apologies if I've stuffed up. I work at Newcastle Grammar and am simply trying to freshen-up it's Wikipedia page, as it was out-of-date. I'm not going to be paid for making any changes, as such. Is that still paid advocacy? Either way, I am happy to follow the Wikipedia rules. I'll do the readings you suggest. Flip Field (talk) 05:25, 8 February 2021 (UTC)