User talk:Gibsonbro

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Hello, Gibsonbro, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Helen Danesh-Meyer, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia:
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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Tacyarg (talk) 08:13, 12 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Tacyarg Thank you for your comments however can you tell specifically what part of this post is advertising or promotional ? I am trying to understand what exactly do you think we are advertising or promoting?
 * Everything is factually accurate so help understanding would be appreciated
 * when i read a male professors on wikipedia for example Patrick Chinnery I am struggling to see how this is allowed yet what we have written is not  Gibsonbro (talk) 09:22, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, Gibsonbro. There were two issues with the text you added. Firstly, there were no references. Any statements you add need to be referenced to reliable, independent sources. Referencing for beginners will help with that. Secondly, you used words like "significant", "sought-after", "strong advocate". There is absolutely nothing wrong with these words if they are supported by references which say the same thing. Given that they weren't, I wondered whether you know, work with or represent Danesh-Meyer, in which case the conflict of interest guidance would apply. Thanks for the heads'-up about Chinnery; I'll have a look at the article about him. Tacyarg (talk) 09:55, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks re Chinnery - I've trimmed some promotional material and tagged it as in need of sources, for other editors to pick up. Tacyarg (talk) 10:06, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024
Hello Gibsonbro. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Helen Danesh-Meyer, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Gibsonbro. 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. Wikishovel (talk) 12:08, 21 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits 222.153.126.200 (talk) 20:04, 21 July 2024 (UTC)