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July 2022
Hello Proarte. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to D. J. Waldie, 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:Proarte. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:07, 9 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello! I am D. J. Waldie, the subject of the Wikipedia article and its original author. I am not a paid agent but only a aging writer using the tools of Wikipedia to document my published works.
 * I have edited the original article from time to time and have noted the edits of other authors which have been useful additions to the article.
 * My most recent edit was intended to give the main subsection a clearer structure.
 * D. J. Waldie Proarte (talk) 17:51, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * You comment on the character of my edits may also apply to a more recent edit of the Lakewood, California article.
 * Again, I'm not a compensated agent. I am, however, the former deputy city manager of Lakewood, California (retired since 2010) who, as a volunteer, assists the city in conserving and organizing its historical materials.
 * My recent edits to the Lakewood article reflect these researches, as well as, I hope, a desire for clarity in the article overall.
 * D. J. Waldie Proarte (talk) 18:05, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response. Please take a moment to read the specifics of the COI guidelines, and refrain from editing the article. Thanks for your understanding. Magnolia677 (talk) 19:18, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the clarification of coi. Proarte (talk) 17:12, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

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