User talk:Merchant Taylors York

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Merchant Taylors York. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Merchant Taylors' Hall, York, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

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).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. My name is not dave (talk/contribs) 16:09, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi there - apologies for any contravention of the COI policy - I'm new to wiki and had no intention to mislead. I edited the information about the medieval hall's history and updated the article with information about the new east windows to commemorate the 600th anniversary - there was no commercial intent. I've tried to understand how to edit the page while avoiding a COI but am utterly confused by the number of pages/links/templates/codes so will just leave the page unedited I think. Merchant Taylors York (talk) 16:34, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

October 2017
Hello Merchant Taylors York. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, 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:Merchant Taylors York. 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. My name is not dave (talk/contribs) 16:09, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello, I'm My name is not dave. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Merchant Taylors' Hall, York, 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! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. My name is not dave (talk/contribs) 16:15, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Thank you. — CYBER POWER  ( Trick or Treat) 16:32, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi - no promotional or commercial intent was behind my page edits. The Merchant Taylors is a non-profit organisation and I was just updating the information on the history of the hall and adding information on the new 600th anniversary windows to make the article more complete. I won't edit again! Merchant Taylors York (talk) 16:37, 21 October 2017 (UTC)