User talk:Geoffrey.harharwood

Welcome!
Hello, Geoffrey.harharwood, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! --Yamla (talk) 20:10, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate it. — Geoffrey.harharwood (talk) 20:12, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Copyright concern
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the Uber article, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text—which means allowing other people to modify it—then you must include on the external site the statement: "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later, and under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribute Share-Alike".

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question at the Help Desk. You can also leave a message on my talk page. --Yamla (talk) 19:56, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

This also applies to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. --Yamla (talk) 19:58, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Understood, I didn't intend to cite incorrectly, and I'll take note of this information, Thanks Geoffrey.harharwood (talk) 20:04, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
Hello, I'm C.Fred. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, South by Southwest, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 20:00, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the insight, I'll likely not re-attempt the citation, but your insight is duly noted for future postings. Geoffrey.harharwood (talk) 20:03, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Tyrone Evans Clark moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Tyrone Evans Clark, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Praxidicae (talk) 15:24, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

I'm curious, Praxidicae, how long do I have to add enough references to be able to publish this article? Thanks in advance. — Geoffrey.harharwood (talk) 18:41, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
Hello Geoffrey.harharwood. 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 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:Geoffrey.harharwood. 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. Praxidicae (talk) 15:24, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I'm leaving this message here per your instructions. Thank You. — Geoffrey.harharwood (talk) 18:38, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Do I have to "say" I'm being paid for my writings in order to get un-banned? I'm not, but I'm not concerned at this point about fighting it, I just want my work not to go down in ruin. Thank You — Geoffrey.harharwood (talk) 00:29, 26 February 2020 (UTC)