User talk:MonksCroft

WP:PAID/WP:COI required declarations
Hello, MonksCroft. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. OhNo itsJamie Talk 20:14, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

I don’t know where to start. I did not write the original article on Durdana Ansari. Many years ago she and I both worked at the BBC World Service. She is an Urdu speaker and English is her second language. She saw shortcomings in the article and contacted me to ask if I could improve it, because my written English is better than hers. I duly made the improvements and followed the instructions on removing the maintenance template. I have now been told this was disruptive editing. What is it about the article that makes you think it is written by someone who shouldn’t have written it? In what way is it PR? MonksCroft (talk) 06:38, 6 May 2020 (UTC) MonksCroft (talk) 06:38, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

I continue to ask the above question. I have explained my involvement. There is only one of me. What is the problem? MonksCroft (talk) 20:03, 6 May 2020 (UTC) MonksCroft (talk) 20:03, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Removing maintenance templates
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, you may be blocked from editing. OhNo itsJamie Talk 22:16, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

I object to the expression disruptive editing. I have attempted to follow site guidelines throughout. Please see my Talk page where I seek further guidance. MonksCroft (talk) 23:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Removing pertinent maintenance templates is considered to be disruptive. OhNo itsJamie Talk 23:16, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

All I did was make the corrections I thought helpful and then followed the instructions on removing the template. It reappeared and I thought I must have made an editing error and followed the same procedure to remove it. I am told this is disruptive. Please be kind. I’m human too. MonksCroft (talk) 07:09, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with... I have tried to tidy up the article on Durdana Ansari. I have been flagged as having a Conflict of Interest. I wish to state clearly that I have not been paid for this assistance. I am not employed by anyone - I have been retired for some years. I feel I have been treated with some hostility by Ohnoitsjamie, telling me I "don't get to remove" warning messages when in fact I followed the guidelines for doing so. To display for all to see that you think there is something amiss with the piece casts doubt on the integrity of the subject, and on me. Please rectify this unfounded slight.

I thought the whole idea of Wikipedia was to be helpful in sharing information. I have also contributed to the funding of the operation. I am very disappointed to be treated like this.

MonksCroft (talk) 22:39, 5 May 2020 (UTC) MonksCroft (talk) 22:39, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Part of the "whole idea of Wikipedia" is that Wikipedia is not a PR platform. You have not addressed the WP:COI question. OhNo itsJamie  Talk 23:16, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Please don't use the help me template to complain about another editor.
 * Receiving payment isn't the only way to have a conflict of interest. If you have any sort of relationship at all with Durdana Ansari, positive or negative, you have a conflict of interest, even if you aren't going paid. --I dream of horses (t) (c) Remember to &#123;&#123;ping&#125;&#125; me after replying off my talk page 04:53, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

I’m sorry I am climbing the learning curve here. Help me was the only facility I had discovered at the time I used it. I have since found out how to reply to messages. I will now attempt to reply to the COI question. This is not easy when you’re new to it. MonksCroft (talk) 06:10, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * One way to comply with the COI situation is to add a statement on your own User page that you know Ansari personally, and are editing the article at her request. Given this to be true, Wikipedia advises that rather than edit the article directly, you create a new section at the Talk page of the article where you can propose specific changes. A non-involved editor will then implement the changes, or reject. David notMD (talk) 13:29, 8 August 2020 (UTC)