User talk:Regreb386

September 2019
Hello Regreb386. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Teal Swan, 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:Regreb386. 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. HaeB (talk) 09:51, 24 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi HaeB. Thank you for the message. I am new to Wikipedia editing, so I apologize if the format of this is not completely correct. I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. Currently the Teal Swan page is filled with slanderous, false, biased information, linked to opinion pieces by bloggers, as well as some broken links. Many of the quotes have been fabricated, taken out of context, and I feel that the version of the page that I reverted back to, as well as the small changes I made present factual information about the life and career of Teal Swan in an unbiased, straight-forward, balanced and accurate manor. Please let me know what can be done to keep this page clean and accurate. I am happy to work and cooperate with you on this. Regreb386 (talk) 10:18, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I noticed that you also replaced "According to her, she was born with extrasensory abilities..." with "She was born with extrasensory abilities..." which is odd because those powers don't exist, and even people who believe they exist are known to actually test on the assumption that there's a lot of fakers out there. You should make yourself aware of the Arbitration Committee's stance regarding pseudoscientific topics (like psychic powers), as they have allowed the use of discretionary sanctions are in place to prevent "true believers" from disrupting the site.
 * I noticed you changed "She claims to have been a victim of Satanic ritual abuse from the ages of 6-19, in order to cure her of her extrasensory abilities" to "She survived over 13 years of mental, physical, and sexual abuse from the age of 6 until escaping her abuser at the age of 19." The source cited for that statement is titled "Teal Swan's story of Satanic Ritual abuse," and is an interview with Swan where she literally describes her abuse as Satanic ritual abuse (a phenomena known to most mainstream historians as a moral panic that ironically made it easier for real abusers to hide).  You also removed "Part of this alleged abuse included being sewn into a corpse," which is almost a paraphrase of one sentence in the cited source.  Now, maybe you didn't get that you needed to open the archive link and not the regular URL.
 * Buuut... You also completely censored reliably sourced material that only her fans complain about (and literally no one else).
 * You should find other topics to edit, so you can learn what editing neutrally means here. Ian.thomson (talk) 10:49, 24 September 2019 (UTC)