User talk:Paul Stevens-Fulbrook

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Learning theory (education), which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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October 2019
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Learning theory (education). While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. shoy (reactions) 15:31, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello Paul Stevens-Fulbrook. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Paul Stevens-Fulbrook. 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. shoy (reactions) 15:31, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for your message, it certainly wasn't my intention to break the COI. To explain further, I am the owner and author of the article I linked to. Would it be considered "indirectly compensated" if I benefited from any traffic from the Wikipedia page via ads on my site? If it is, what should I do to fix it? If not then is there some other reason I have contravened the COI policy? Please advise so I don't get into trouble. Thanks Paul Stevens-Fulbrook (talk) 15:39, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Paul, the short answer is yes. Wikipedia is not for advertising and has no interest in driving traffic to anyone's personal or professional website. shoy (reactions) 16:11, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your explanation, I shall not do that again. It wasn't my intention to cause an issue, I simply thought my article was a useful addition. What do I do next, a mandatory disclosure? Paul Stevens-Fulbrook (talk) 16:20, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Just don't promote your website. If you intend to make productive edits using other reliable sources then I don't think you need to disclose anything. If promoting your own website is your only purpose here, then you have a misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is. shoy (reactions) 16:31, 10 October 2019 (UTC)