User talk:PatricianHall

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Hello PatricianHall. 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:PatricianHall. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 13:25, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi, not the case. This page relates to a building which is run ‘not for profit’ by a charity. We do not receive any payment for our volunteering. Thanks PatricianHall (talk) 13:34, 17 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Your WP:Username is a violation of policy as it implies you are using a shared account, the use of "our" above also indicates this is again policy as using a shared account. The name you have chosen is also considered Promotional as it is the name of an organization. Next even though you say you are not getting paid and it is a 'not for profit' you or the organization clearly is benefited if the article portrays them in a good light, therefore it is paid. Finally you clearly have a conflict of interest which means you should probably be using the talk page of the article to request changes and not edit the article directly. VViking Talk Edits 13:44, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Viewmont, we did not edit the article, we merely uploaded an ‘up to date’ photo of the building in question. The previous photo was over 10 years old. There is absolutely no conflict of interest. Thanks for the welcome! PatricianHall (talk) 14:01, 17 September 2021 (UTC)