User talk:General Registry

September 2023
Hello, I'm Dl2000. I noticed that you recently removed content from General Registry (Isle of Man) without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Dl2000 (talk) 23:16, 4 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi DI2000.
 * Apologies for the lack of information to accompany the edit & thanks very much for your message.
 * I came across the page yesterday and noticed that it was significantly out of date, i.e. all of the Registry based functions transferred to the Department for Enterprise circa 2014. In addition, there were some other issues such as the General Registry is not a 'Department' it is an 'Office', the Chief Registrar is not a Chief Executive and allowing for the totally independent status of the General Registry there should not be any direct connection with the political infrastructure of the Isle of Man; perceived or otherwise - hence the deletion of the table.
 * I'm making these changes as an individual within the organisation authorised to do so, and to try and help user of the site and mitigate any misunderstanding on the part of members of the public that may get confused as to what services the General Registry currently provides, hence why the link to our contemporary website which we maintain - we had no idea that the Wiki page existed.
 * Please do message me on here again if I can provide any further clarity.
 * Kindest regards. General Registry (talk) 08:24, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Conflict of interest and paid editing
Hello General Registry. 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:General Registry. 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. Melcous (talk) 13:59, 5 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi
 * I have no financial interest in the subject, I simply noticed that the article was factually incorrect because some of the things in the list were no longer the responsibility of the General Registry and anyone reading the page would have gotten confused.
 * Thanks. General Registry (talk) 14:58, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
 * You said above that you are "an individual within the organisation authorised". If you are an employee of an organisation (or an unpaid intern) then editing about that organisation is considered paid editing here, regardless of whether you are specifically being paid to edit here. Please read the Paid Editing guidelines carefully and ensure you comply with them, and do not directly edit affected articles further. Thank you Melcous (talk) 15:04, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi
 * The entry is in respect of a Government office and the services it delivers. If I had left the page as it was, readers of the page would have gotten the incorrect information.
 * If you don't feel that I should update the entry, then please feel free to copy and paste my information into the page to ensure that the entry is factually correct; that would be genuinely helpful.
 * Just trying to help members of the public not get confused, and to do so honestly, apologies if that's not the right way to do it.
 * peaceandlove General Registry (talk) 15:23, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I understand what you are trying to do and why, but undisclosed paid editing is against wikipedia's terms of use, which you agree to when you created your account. Stop editing the article because you are doing it unhelpfully. If there is information on the page that is out of date or incorrect, then you can propose changes on the talk page of the article. This can most easiy be done using the a reliable source that verifies the change. Melcous (talk) 22:09, 5 September 2023 (UTC)