User talk:FreddieMartyn

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-- 09:05, Monday, November 2, 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi FreddieMartyn! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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-- 09:49, Monday, November 2, 2015 (UTC)

Paid editing on Wikipedia
Hello FreddieMartyn. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to EURACTIV. 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:FreddieMartyn. 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. ☆ Bri (talk) 21:15, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello Bri! You asked if I'm currently receiving or expect to receive compensation for the edits made on the EURACTIV page. I wanted to inform you that I am not. I do work in that area, but not for that company. It's a super well known company in my field of work, and I wanted to ensure that other curious minds were satisfied. Thank you for the enquiry! Freddie (talk) 23:46, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * The reason I asked is because your name appears on their website as an author. Can you elucidate? ☆ Bri (talk) 21:54, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh that! I wrote one opinion piece that was published there once. I created the EURACTIV page because it had no trusted sources, so I made some changes, and I was new to Wikipedia, so it took a few edits. Thank you for looking out! I work in European regional policy. Freddie (talk) 10:15, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Understood, and I've initiated a debate to see if EURACTIV should be retained. Sometimes the debates result in improvement, sometimes no change, and sometimes deletion. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:56, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of EURACTIV for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article EURACTIV is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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