User talk:MrPedroUK

September 2021
Hello MrPedroUK. 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:MrPedroUK. 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. MrOllie (talk) 20:39, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi MrOllie, Thanks for your message. No I do not have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic. It's purely one of the areas that I'm interested in and, as I'm just starting to experiment with Wiki, it's where I thought I'd start to try and add info, updates and citations that I thought would be of value. It's not the only Wiki page that I've been updating - also motorsport and NFL related. Thanks for taking the time to reach out though - I appreciate the links and helping me to navigate where my updates/edits may cause me issues. I'm still learning! MrPedroUK (talk) 20:51, 19 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep in mind that Wikipedia isn't here to promote trade organizations such as the ERC. - MrOllie (talk) 20:53, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Ah, sorry about that. I just thought they were a reputable independent source like Financial Conduct Authority. Noted though. I'll steer clear of them in future and stick to major national broadsheets etc., for citations. Would that be better? MrPedroUK (talk) 20:55, 19 September 2021 (UTC) Thanks MrOllie.