User talk:Tbucuvalas

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July 2024
Hello Tbucuvalas. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Tarpon Springs, Florida, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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.

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 * I am not being compensated, either directly or indirectly. I am a scholar researching/writing about the sponge industry, and the former Curator of Arts & Historical Resources for the City of Tarpon Springs--among other credentials. Tbucuvalas (talk) 23:42, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * BTW, why would you even think that? And do you have an actual position with Wikipedia? Or do you have any knowledge of this subject area? If so, what is your background in it? Tbucuvalas (talk) 23:44, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I answered: I am not compensated. Tbucuvalas (talk) 15:54, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * You added this image which identified you as an employee of Tarpon Springs, and you are a single-purpose editor. I would suggest you carefully read the above links regarding conflict of interest editing. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:33, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * When I wrote the nomination for the Greektown Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, I was an employee of the City of Tarpon Springs. However, the map itself was generated by an employee of Florida's Bureau of Historic Preservation (Carl Shiver) for inclusion in the nomination .  I left the employment of the City of Tarpon Springs in 2019, so I am no longer an employee, but an independent scholar. Tbucuvalas (talk) 20:40, 18 July 2024 (UTC)