User talk:Gwanwata

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February 2024
Hello Gwanwata. 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 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:Gwanwata. 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. Netherzone (talk) 04:42, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

March 2024
As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Michael Pierre Price, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Gwanwata, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Please disclose the nature of your Conflict of Interest. Netherzone (talk) 21:04, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. ''Gwanwata, I see that you have added a general COI userbox on your user page, thank you for doing that. However you did not answer the question whether or not you are financially compensated for your edits and if so, by whom. Also, it seems you may also have a COI with Helen A. Harrison; is that the case? Could you please kindly answer these two questions? Thank you.'' Netherzone (talk) 19:44, 8 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Dear @Netherzone
 * I apologize for responding to your message with a delay. I understand that this may have caused inconvenience, and I will strive to be more prompt in the future.
 * Thank you for bringing your concerns to my attention. I would now like to address your questions. To clarify, I am not financially compensated for my contributions on Wikipedia or any other platform. I am a contributor who is interested in and studying the Techspressionnist movement. My connection with @Scribe1791 is purely academic and focused on this subject.
 * I have added a general conflict of interest userbox on my user page to indicate my interest in the Techspressionnist movement. However, I want to emphasize that this interest does not involve any financial compensation or personal gain.
 * I apologize once again for the delay in responding to your message, and I am available if you have any further questions or concerns.
 * Best regards. Gwanwata (talk) 09:55, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I have no conflict of interest with Helen A. Harrison, and my goal is to contribute in an encyclopedic manner by providing accurate and reliable information to the best of my abilities. Gwanwata (talk) 10:08, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for clarifying that you are not being paid, and for properly disclosing on your user page the articles with which you have a connection. Please read the guidelines for COI editing which can be found here: WP:COI. There is a (somewhat) shorter explanatory essay to be found here: WP:PLAINSIMPLECOI. Best regards, and thanks again. Netherzone (talk) 11:51, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Gwanwata, here is why it seemed like you were doing paid editing: As a brand new editor, your second edit ever was to create a fully formed and formatted article in mainspace on Colin Goldberg as can be seen here: complete with citations and photos uploaded the same day. This is unusual for a new editor. Then you created Michael Pierre Price directly in mainspace that was filled with unsourced, very personal content with a highly promotional tone. . Price was one of the artists in the show Goldberg curated called Techspressionism. Then you created Helen A. Harrison, who wrote the catalog for the Techspressionism show, fully formed, complete with properly formatted citations. . All of your other edits have to do with Price and his work/games. I'm assuming good faith re: UPE, but it is unusual to see this sort of editing pattern from a brand new user. Netherzone (talk) 16:41, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Michael Pierre Price for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Michael Pierre Price is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Michael Pierre Price until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Netherzone (talk) 22:02, 2 March 2024 (UTC)