User talk:Frank07081975

October 2018
Hello Frank07081975. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Frank07081975. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:19, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, Frank07081975, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms our use and policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:31, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Billinghurst. First of all I cannot write on your talk page. Nevertheless I have verified my username yesterday at the german wikipedia. But please answer the following questions. I am pretty sure that I can be objective enough even if I edit on behalf of my own company. If you look at some of the artists artikelles I have edited for example "Miles Aldridge" please explain wha several gallery shows listed there are ok for you, but if I add a solo show ot our gallery it will be deleted ? Can you explain, wha you delety my gallery affiliation at the artist David Gerstein but on the other hand there are three weblinks te other germany galleries who are weather official nor have anything to do with the artist ? A gallery called Ostendorf has a Link there camouflaged as Biography of David Gerstein which links directly to the website of that gallery.


 * Hi. To get someone's attention, you are encourage to wikilink their username, or use a template like ping. Apologies for the protection on my user talk page; we have a gallant crosswiki vandal who is bravely making a nuisance of themselves, and this is to reduce his impact. To partly address your questions. I am not monitoring these articles, you triggered link addition watchers, so in effect I am watching your focus on adding your links. When that is your only editing, that is a conflict of interest. When you are doing that for financial return, then is the next step up as paid contribution and quite possibly a breach of the terms of use. So as I see it, you are not here to make our encyclopaedias better, you are here to advertise or promote a product, without a declaration. I started gently and a few days later, you still haven't made that easy declaration. I don't have to justify actions or inactions on other parts of this or any other article, that is not a defence for your actions. As I said earlier, if you see other articles that are in breach of our editing guidelines, feel free to fix them to align with our guidance. If that means removing the other promotions then make those removals, and give a reasonable summary of why they are removed. For assistance in how or where to edit when you have a conflict of interest, it is best that you read the previously linked articles, and if you need some beginners assistance, then I would guide you to the Teahouse. — billinghurst  sDrewth  04:43, 2 November 2018 (UTC)