User talk:Mark Skaggs

Welcome!
Hello, Mark Skaggs, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was FarmVille, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * Best practices for editors with close associations
 * Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 19:31, 6 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello Mr. Skaggs,
 * I found the discussion that you are having with some people here interesting. I am having a very similar problem. I am updating information on my school, and I am receiving "citations" and my information being deleted.  However, Wikipedia has suggested "rules," but it is not a community where people are supposed to act like information "police" and issue citations, much less make judgments about what is or isn't true.  Some people are trying to act like they have the right and duty to police these pages and to delete information that they do not see a proper citation to prove.  I am an English professor, and first-hand information is often the most accurate.  If you are the person creating the history or the event, you have the right to have it documented as it happens even if the media or someone else has not recorded it.  You lived it and did it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfreeman44 (talk • contribs) 03:55, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I found the discussion that you are having with some people here interesting. I am having a very similar problem. I am updating information on my school, and I am receiving "citations" and my information being deleted.  However, Wikipedia has suggested "rules," but it is not a community where people are supposed to act like information "police" and issue citations, much less make judgments about what is or isn't true.  Some people are trying to act like they have the right and duty to police these pages and to delete information that they do not see a proper citation to prove.  I am an English professor, and first-hand information is often the most accurate.  If you are the person creating the history or the event, you have the right to have it documented as it happens even if the media or someone else has not recorded it.  You lived it and did it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfreeman44 (talk • contribs) 03:55, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020
Hello, I'm CLCStudent. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been [ disallowed by an edit filter] because they did not appear constructive. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page, which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Also feel free to ask for assistance at the Help Desk whenever you like to. Thank you. CLCStudent (talk) 14:39, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Please refrain from attempting to make unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been [ disallowed by an edit filter.] If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. CLCStudent (talk) 14:42, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello Mark Skaggs. 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 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:Mark Skaggs. 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. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 19:40, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Signature
Click "preferences" and then scroll down to "Signature". -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 19:35, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Edit filter
The WP:edit filter disallowed the addition of an emoji. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. We don't use emoji in writing an encyclopedia. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 19:38, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Mark Skaggs
If you are not he, you will need to change your user name.

If you are he and choose to keep your current username, please send an email to info-enwikimedia.org including your real name and your Wikipedia username to receive instructions from our volunteer response team about account verification. Please do not send documentation without being requested to do so. Thanks, -- Deep fried okra  ( talk ) 19:46, 6 December 2020 (UTC)