User talk:Greenthc57

COI concerns
Hello Greenthc57. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Tim Cooper (academic), 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:Greenthc57. 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. signed,Rosguill talk 19:34, 27 October 2020 (UTC)


 * I am not being compensated either directly or indirectly.Greenthc57 (talk) 17:45, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello. These edit summaries suggest that this account is associated with Tim Cooper: 1 2. If so, please see the WP:YOURSELF policy. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle (talk) 21:17, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi. You will be aware that this biography was initiated by Matt Shapley, who used to be employed at my university, as he mentions it in the history. No payment or other inducement was offered. He was aware of articles written by academic colleagues (and even one by a relative!) and was unfamiliar with Wiki policy. As soon as I was notified by a Wiki editor, Rosguill, that this was not acceptable I made the requested COI disclosure. I made some minor corrections last June when unaware of Wiki policy, but have since used the approved method (Template:Request edit) to suggest further corrections. I hope that this is acceptable. Greenthc57 (talk) 22:37, 8 December 2020 (UTC)