User talk:Gbwiki24

Using two accounts for editing
Hello. This is just a polite note to say that I believe you might be accidentally breaching one of Wikipedia's policies by creating and operating two separate user accounts (User:Gbwiki1234 and User:Gbwiki24). If I'm right, I'm sure you did this as a brand new user without appreciating how seriously we regard multiple accounts being used here. When we feel this has been done maliciously we report the details to an administrator who launches an investigation, often leading in all accounts being blocked from editing. But my guess is that you've maybe innocently created one account for work and maybe one for use at home, so I thought I'd gently draw this to your attention first, and advise you how to deal with it.

Now, I could be wrong, of course, in which case I apologise for jumping to a false conclusion. But I noted that these two accounts were created within two days of one another, are almost identically named, and have only since edited lists of minor staff at Vancouver Sun. You need to know that continued use of more than one account for non-constructive purposes can lead to permanent blocks for what we call 'sockpuppetry'. See WP:SOCKPUPPET for more details on this, and for the very limited criteria in which two accounts may, under rare circumstances, be declared and used.

What I have done is to have left an identical help message on what I think is probably the alternative account. I invite you to create userpages for both of these accounts, on which you can declare any link between them and indicate which account you will now permanently abandon, and which will be used in future. I'm sorry to seem to be jumping on you like this, but (assuming I am right in my assumption) it's often better to sort out unintended errors like this whilst people are still brand new to editing. If you have any concerns over my message, feel free to reply to me, or to seek assistance at the Teahouse. You might like to have a go at The Wikipedia Adventure and visit Help:Getting started for more advice on the best ways to edit. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 09:44, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thank you for confirming that you created two accounts by mistake. You replied to me on the Talk Page of the account that you said was an error, so you must never use that one again. You said: PLEASE NOTE: I have no idea how to create a user page or get rid of the second account (Gbwiki1234), which I created by mistake -- I was merely trying to help out the media outlet I worked at for 13 years by updating their information so it's current, given that Facebook is now linking to their Wikipedia page. Why on earth wouldn't you want correct information reflected, and who are you to decide that these journalists are not 'notable'? This is the publication of record in British Columbia, in the largest newsroom in Western Canada, and their website's masthead does not begin to reflect the breadth of their staff. If your aim is to put people off contributing to Wikipedia, you have certainly achieved that. I wouldn't normally edit another user's page, but as you are unsure how to do this, I will create it for you and leave an explanatory note declaring the linking between the two.✅
 * You asked who am to decide who is Notable, and you suggested I'm trying to put you off. The reverse is the case; I am trying to help you. I can assure you I could very easily have simply reported the two accounts and had them assessed by an admin for breaching our policies, and not put the effort in to try and assist you. We work by consensus here and do it according to a suite of detailed policies and guidelines. I'm just a fairly experienced editor here and I help out at the Teahouse and am well-aware how newcomers have difficulty understanding precisely how we operate. You've already had your reversion of my removal of your trivial list of staff members reverted by another editor, and this was done according to how Wikipedia works. We really aren't interested in what you happen to know because you used to work there. (If you are still employed by the newspaper, you have a Conflict of Interest and are obliged to declare that you are paid according to this policy. You can only add content to Wikipedia that is available elsewhere in reliable sources, not in your head. Trivial listing of minor staff names like this that your two accounts inserted will always be deleted. We expect users of this in encyclopedia to go to an organisation's own website for that kind of stuff (and we're certainly not here to fill that gap for them, or because you unilaterally think we should), but you are very welcome indeed to add the names of staff members who do meet our notability criteria and already have - or are likely to have - an article written about them. In my original post, I supplied a category listing to help you do just that.
 * Please take the time to read all the links I have supplied you with. They are there to help and guide you to become a constructive editor here. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 07:51, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Vancouver Sun
I have reverted your recent edit of this article as it included a list of non-notable staff. If you wish to better understand how wikipedia works and what is and isn't notable I'd be more than happy to help. Flat Out (talk) 02:09, 26 September 2018 (UTC)