User talk:Johnnyrare

January 2015
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Conflict of Interest on SJK 171
Hello, Johnnyrare. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page SJK 171, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. You've indicated that https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Sky_1972.JPG, which is purportedly by SJK 171, is your own work. If so, then you shouldn't be editing an article about SJK 171 BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 12:28, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is SJK 171 redux. The discussion is about the topic SJK 171. Thank you. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 15:06, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

May 2019
Hello Johnnyrare. 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 SJK 171, 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:Johnnyrare. 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. Graywalls (talk) 15:28, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

I am not being paid or compensated I am a fan correcting information and you guys keep erasing it even though I am adding credible information with cited sources..

Can you please explain to me why I am not allowed to make changes with factual information?

The image was uploaded as own work as an accident as I thought that was the correct way to upload a picture I took. I took the image of the work when it was hanging in a gallery. I am adding citations but they keep getting removed? I am a huge fan of street art and am giving credit to many historical names such as TAKI 183, SNAKE 1 etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnyrare (talk • contribs) 17:53, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for responding to state you're not receiving compensation. The concerns arise due to the nature of your edits. Your edit history has been confined exclusively to SJK 171 and the contents look promotional of the subject which suggests you may have a close personal or professional connection with the subject. A different page closely related to the subject United Graffiti Artists had been deleted twice so there's an indication of promotional activity around this subject. Graywalls (talk) 06:29, 2 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your response on my talk page. As noted above, the reason there's been concern here is that when an account only edits one article, does so very extensively, and that article is about an actual person, it's very often the case that the editor either is the subject of the page, or has a close connection to them, both of which violate the Conflict of Interest policy.  Good to know that doesn't apply in this case. I'll go back through and re-insert the citations you added in SJK 171.  Regarding the intro section (called a lead or lede), that's generally supposed to be a short description of the person, so listing an array of other graffiti artists of the same vintage doesn't really fit there.  Thanks for your contributions - I'd encourage you to look at other articles in your areas of interest, and find ways to improve them as well!  BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 12:45, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * He said that he's not getting compensated, although it hasn't been established that he's not connected. Saving for the COI related discussion on this matter, his edits are 100% exclusively on SJK 171, going back over four years. Graywalls (talk) 14:34, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 01:03, 3 May 2019 (UTC)