User talk:Jhandorff

January 2023
Hello, I'm Tacyarg. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Brit Morin, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Tacyarg (talk) 00:00, 19 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for calling this out Tacyarg - I believe I have fixed it but if not you can let me know. Thank you! Jhandorff (talk) 18:20, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

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Hello Jhandorff. 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.

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 * Hi David,
 * I do not have a financial stake--rather I am familiar with the subject/the course (selfmade) and wanted to bring it up to date - and I am new to editing wikipedia so I was using it as a sort of trial run regarding my own understanding of contributing to wikipedia.
 * I actually work in art and fashion!
 * My apologies for the difficulty here! I am also happy to undo the edits, or go through again to ensure everything sounds as factual and neutral as possible.
 * Thank you!
 * Jane Jhandorff (talk) 23:48, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't want to have messed anything up - happy to fix things however! Jhandorff (talk) 00:27, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi David,
 * Sorry to bother you again - I just want to remedy this as I feel I have messed something up for someone that I have no part in other than having audited the course. Most edits have been removed and I am happy to remove anything else. Now that I know the Sandbox exists I will use that to experiment!
 * Please do let me know if I may remove the tags or any further edits need to be made.
 * Thank you! Jhandorff (talk) 16:25, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, it was me who added the "weasel words" tag, though not the other two. I've been through the article again and added some changes and think it's reasonably ok now. I've removed the tags. Thanks for responding. Tacyarg (talk) 21:41, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you Tacyarg - greatly appreciate it! Jhandorff (talk) 21:44, 20 January 2023 (UTC)