User talk:GoldManFan

March 2022
Hello GoldManFan. 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:GoldManFan. 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. — DaxServer (t · m · c) 10:12, 18 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello DaxServer. I am in no way being compensated for my edits.
 * I am learning how to edit Wikipedia as I go by looking at the articles that are already published.
 * As far as my article on Mark Beachum, I found it odd that he didn't have one written about him considering his body of work. Because there is minimal mention of him on the other comic related pages in Wikipedia even though he's a prominent figure and had work in all the big companies, I thought he was being deliberately hidden because he is black.
 * The same concerns some of the other names that I intend to write articles about, I have a list. February was Black History Month and on my radar I decided to write about three black comic artists that don't have pages: Mark Beachum, Kevin Taylor and Greg Boone. I did quite a bit of research on this one as I intend to do for the others also. I didn't expect that research would take me far into March before I'd be done with my first article. In March I wanted to do an article on female artists Pamela Lovas and possibly Sandra Chang if I had the time.
 * In case my tone was not to Wikipedia standards, I would very much appreciate guidance in bringing my edits up to the level of experienced wiki-editors. I find that everything I chose to write into the article has the right to be there. GoldManFan (talk) 19:40, 23 March 2022 (UTC)