User talk:Garypaulthomas

December 2022
WIkipedia is not a host for your resume, or a means of selling real estate.  Acroterion   (talk)   14:32, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I do apologise if I have broken any rules. I was under the impression that the user page was a resume of the user and therefore used it as such. I am new to Wikipedia so please excuse my ignorance I shall read the guidelines for the user page and follow them. Garypaulthomas (talk) 14:46, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * It's a place for you to tell other WIkipedia editors a little about yourself and your activities on WIkipedia. It should not read like you're offering real estate for sale or encouraging people on Wikipedia to contact you for professional activities. Sometimes it's a little hard to move out of sales mode or resume mode. I encourage you to write about things you are familiar with and which you can support with sources, and to provide photographs. You are welcome to create another userpage - it just shounld't sound like the resume you'd use for your professional activities. For instance, I just say that I'm an architect, and leave it at that. You could certainly mention your location too, since it is relevant to your interests and potential editing activities. Please read WP:COI for areas in which you must tread carefully.   Acroterion   (talk)   14:52, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * No problem understood. I shall read the guidelines and stick to them. It was truly an honest mistake. I was merely trying to point out that as a real estate professional I have lots of knowledge about the area I work in. So the mention was merely aimed at pointing out my 20 yrs knowledge about the Algarve. So a quick question if I may and so not to make a mistake on my first edit - On the Vale do Lobo page I would like to point out that it is not a gated community, far from it, it is open to the public, with no gates, to freely move around where they wish. So in the 1st instance I have made the edit and explained the reason. Is this something you now need to check? Garypaulthomas (talk) 15:16, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * No, I would regard the assertion that it's a gated community as a statement that needs a source - removing an unsourced and incorrect statement really doesn't need more than a note in the edit summary.Generally, every statement in an article sould be backed up by independent sourcing.  Acroterion   (talk)   15:51, 11 December 2022 (UTC)