User talk:PoussinChevre

Nomination of Robert Dayton for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Robert Dayton is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Robert Dayton until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Nearlyevil665 (talk) 17:02, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello PoussinChevre. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Robert Dayton, 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:PoussinChevre. 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. The article on Robert Dayton is currently going through AfD. I noticed you uploaded a picture of Robert in what appears to have been taken in a domicile and claimed that you had made the photograph. Could you explain your relation to the subject? You might want to take a look at WP:COI. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nearlyevil665 (talk • contribs) 17:09, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

This is to confirm that I am NOT being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits on the Robert Dayton article. --PoussinChevre (talk) 18:33, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, PoussinChevre. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 18:26, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Regarding this edit, you indicated at the AFD that you have a conflict of interest. Please use the article talk page for changes, or simply avoid editing the page altogether, per the COI guideline. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 22:47, 27 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Will do - I really appreciate your feedback. It's encouraging to know there are such diligent gatekeepers here :) --PoussinChevre (talk) 09:39, 28 August 2020 (UTC)