User talk:Jackhornedotnet

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Hello, Jackhornedotnet, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Cameron Whitten, have removed content without an explanation. If you'd like to experiment with the wiki's syntax, please do so in the sandbox rather than in articles.

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April 2020
Hello Jackhornedotnet. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Cameron Whitten, 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 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:Jackhornedotnet. 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. creffett (talk) 19:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi, please stop editing until you understand why the edits are so problematic. Cameron Whitten does not 'own' or control his Wikipedia page, which makes your edits and reverts especially objectionable. You will be blocked if you don't acknowledge this and at least make an attempt to communicate. tedder (talk) 19:41, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

@tedder Hello, I am not receiving nor do I expect to receive compensation for editing Cameron Whitten's Wikipedia page. I am not a paid advocate for Cameron. I recognize that Cameron Whitten does not own his Wikipedia page, but was updating based on edits he himself provided.Jackhornedotnet (talk) 20:05, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Then what, exactly, is your connection to Cameron Whitten? You clearly are connected, since you say you're removing sections "at his request". (courtesy ping since the above ping didn't actually ping) creffett (talk) 20:14, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

I am a friend of Cameron's and I am helping him (at no cost) with some web resources related to his current campaign for Metro Council. Cameron himself provided the edits to me and I edited the page. Apologies if this arrangement has violated TOS. I will refrain from further editing of his page until I receive guidance from one or both of you. Jackhornedotnet (talk) 20:22, 13 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Money changing hands isn't needed for conflict of interest. In the future, you (and others in his office) should not edit his article directly. Instead, place suggestions on the talk page, such as by following this process: Edit requests. This is necessary for political pages, especially when the intent is to reshape the public presentation of an individual like this. tedder (talk) 21:24, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

@ Got it. Apologies for violating the COI rules. I'll refrain from making further edits to Cameron's page. Jackhornedotnet (talk) 21:32, 13 April 2020 (UTC)