User talk:Piakerner

David Graeber
Hi Piakerner, welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your edits to David Graeber, but as you probably noticed I have "reverted" them all for now. I'm sorry about that. I really don't want to be discouraging, it's just that they didn't fit with the article and/or our style guide. Just to explain the problems a bit further:


 * 1) We don't put external links in article text, either directly or as footnotes, unless they're references. The article has an "External links" section where a short list of links of direct relevance can be found.
 * 2) We try to avoid repeating the same things, either within or across articles. So before you add something please just quickly check whether it's already mentioned in the article (at least in the same section) or any "see also" pages like David Graeber bibliography.
 * 3) Everything on Wikipedia must be supported by a citation to a reliable source. Currently the article is fully referenced, so if you're going to add or change a factual detail, please provide a reference, and especially check that it isn't contradicted by a source already cited.

I realise that some or all of this could sound like nitpicking; I hope you can appreciate that we're just trying to ensure that the article is an accurate and well-sourced summary of Graeber's life & work. Your edits are genuinely welcome. I will also drop a templated message below with some links for beginners. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 14:46, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your letter, it is very helpful.
 * As i am a huge fan of David Graeber's works and i also work for the David Graeber Foundation all i wanted to do is to correct some mistakes on his page.
 * Hope i will be able to do it correctly now.
 * Piakerner (talk) 08:44, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah, if you work for the David Graeber Foundation then that complicates things. It would be best if you didn't edit the article directly and instead suggested corrections on the talk page. The page is actively watched so I think you'll get a response quickly, but generally speaking we don't want Wikipedia articles to be written by people with a connection to the subject. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 15:16, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hi Piakerner! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

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Happy editing! –&#8239;Joe (talk) 14:46, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

February 2022
Hello Piakerner. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to David Graeber, 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:Piakerner. 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. I wouldn't expect you to know this so it's not a huge deal, but you do need to comply.  Doug Weller  talk 09:03, 26 February 2022 (UTC)