User talk:Simon3Anderson

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Simon Anderson, and I noticed that your username, "Simon3Anderson", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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I am Simon Anderson, this page is about my history & I was adding one item of fact in my edit.

June 2019
Hello Simon3Anderson. 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 Simon Anderson, 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.

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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:Simon3Anderson. 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.  Orville1974  (talk) 00:29, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

I am Simon Anderson & my edit was to include one item of fact that was missing. This page is about my personal history.
 * Hi, Simon. Please reference the following links that discuss steps you should take when you would like to see changes to your page.  First off, WP:DISCLOSE.  Then, these pages can provide more guidance: Editing Your Own Page, WP:COI, and WP:NPV.  The best course of action is to disclose your conflict of interest and request changes on the article's talk page:  Talk:Simon Anderson for a disinterested editor to source and change for you.  Orville1974  (talk) 01:10, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi Orville, thanks...I'm 64 years old & not too tech savvy - would you like to be that disinterested editor? If so, the only addition that I made was to add the results of an ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals) contest result: ie winning the Pipeline Masters surfing competition in 1981 riding a Thruster surfboard. thanks, Simon
 * This is what I found: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/1981/mct/2424/offshore-pipeline-masters/results?resultsType=prizes. It doesn't mention the Thruster board.  Do you have a link to a source that says you were riding one at the time?  Orville1974  (talk) 02:43, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Nevermind. I think I found what I needed.  The edit's been done.  Orville1974  (talk) 02:49, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your help Orville, much appreciated

April 2020
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