User talk:Pamela Gosling

May 2021
Hello Pamela Gosling. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Darcey Croft, 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:Pamela Gosling. 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. – NJD-DE (talk) 20:25, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Reply to Njd-de
Hello Njd-de

I can see why you are thinking this, but I can assure you I am not at all connected in any capacity with this page, certainly there is no conflict of interest. I am a new editor and learning how to edit pages. I follow Darcey on Social media and being inspired by the work she is doing with mothers thought I would update her page based on articles and knowledge I have about her. You can probably tell I am a newbie, because of my clumsy edits but I promise I am not receiving any incentive or benefit in kind to do this! I probably should work on other pages to get my editing skills up as well. I appreciate that you have pulled me up on this and happy to have discovered the talk pages! Pamela Gosling (talk) 21:06, 9 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for your reply. I noticed you are here since 2019 and no one has ever welcomed you: Belated welcome to Wikipedia!
 * Your edits seem to be focused on Darcey Croft, and some of the edits seem promotional or were without reliable sources. Also uploading the company logos and selfie of her, lead to my assumption that you would have a close connection to her. A conflict of interest wouldn't be something bad per se, would just need disclosure and requesting edits on the article talk page instead of direct edits to the article.
 * In case you have any questions, feel free to ask on my talkpage or at the teahouse. Happy editing! – NJD-DE (talk) 21:30, 9 May 2021 (UTC)