User talk:MitchSL

December 2022
Hello, I'm Magnolia677. An edit that you recently made to Page Fence Giants seemed to be a test and has been reverted. If you want to practice editing, please use your sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 23:34, 5 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes, I wrote the only book on the Page Fence Giants baseball club. I added a bunch from my book last week that was removed. It wasn't source. I also am the President of the museum in Williamston, Michigan and added and corrected some things last week, which were also removed. It has been several years, I think, since I last edited. I am just retired and wanted to add accuracy to some of the items that I know about. MitchSL (talk) 23:43, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * This would put you in a conflict of interest. I'll add a tag to your page with more detail. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk)

Hello MitchSL. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Page Fence Giants, 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:MitchSL. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:04, 6 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I am retired high school history teacher. I am not being paid by my publisher for the Page Fence Giants edits. I am also a self-publisher of two books, one about Williamston history and another about my Civil War fighting great great grandfather. I am not be paid by anyone to add information to pages which are incomplete or contain wrong information. I am trying to spread accurate information about people, places and events that I have an expertise on due to my previous research. Mitch MitchSL (talk) 15:42, 6 December 2022 (UTC)