User talk:Isobel A Coalville

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May 2013
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page World Habitat Awards has been reverted. Your edit here to World Habitat Awards was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://twitter.com/bshf_WHA) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 15:34, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Community-led Housing has been accepted
 Community-led Housing, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!  Programming Geek talk to me 22:12, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of World Habitat


A tag has been placed on World Habitat, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Disclosure of employment
Hello Isobel Ashford. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to World Habitat, and that 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:Isobel Ashford. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:56, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with...the queries/messages I am getting via the Talk function. are they legitimate? either way I don't understand them. The latter one today makes reference to payment - is this a scam? the page I have edited is for a charity so the organization doesn't receive income in relation to the content on the page - ie it's not related to paid advertising....is that what is being queried. please help ! thanks

Isobel Ashford (talk) 16:14, 16 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Nobody will ever ask you to pay money for the privilege to edit Wikipedia. Although the Wikimedia Foundation does accept charitable donations, this website is free to use and edit. The message you received is not requesting payment from you and isn't a scam. What this message is saying is that it seems as though you're editing a topic where you might have a financial interest, for example you're writing about your employer or an organization that has hired you to write about it. Wikipedia's Terms of Service require that you disclose such a relationship if one exists. The template gives instructions for how to make a disclosure, or if you prefer you can just write here what your relationship is to the topic, and someone can populate the template for you. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:07, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for this reply - that's really helpful. I had a look at the text and really didn't understand it. Your clarification on the reference to payment really helps. I can confirm that World Habitat is my Employer - I've had a look at the guidance on how to reference this but it didn't explain exactly how or where to do this. you seem to suggest that 'someone' can populate the template....is that someone from Wikipedia? Isobel Ashford (talk) 09:22, 17 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I was the editor who placed the initial message. I am a volunteer editor, like the overwhelming majority of users on here. I have placed the paid template on your user page, located at User:Isobel Ashford. I have also placed notices on Talk:World Habitat Awards and Talk:Building and Social Housing Foundation to indicate your paid contribution disclosure.
 * If you have not done so already, please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest. We discourage editors from writing about topics where they have a close personal or professional connection, due to the inherent difficulty in adhering to the required neutral point of view and relying on information from independent sources. You might also find these helpful:
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 * Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:36, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for this...I think I understand more now. Isobel Ashford (talk) 14:50, 17 November 2017 (UTC)