User talk:TheCorrectorOfAzgard

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August 2022
Hello, I'm Doug Weller. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Bennington Triangle, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. And we'd never say "Let it be known".  Doug Weller  talk 15:43, 26 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Ironic considering your statement on your user page about needing sources! Doug Weller  talk 15:44, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Standard notice for editors with a financial stake in editing an article
Hello TheCorrectorOfAzgard. As you have acknowledged, you have a financial stake in promoting this 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:TheCorrectorOfAzgard. 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. Doug Weller talk 07:08, 28 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I have spent money on researching the story, but I in no way expect any financial compensation of any kind from anyone or any entity. The story I am writing is purely out of passion for the subject at hand. The mentioned licensing below is in regards to the legal use of my subscription with Newspapers.com, and how I may/may not utilize their database and data in it, not in regards to any form of compensation. TheCorrectorOfAzgard (talk) 07:39, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Are you TMBrooks by any chance?
Because you are adding material by him from his website which says " I'm using these clippings to write a story, but also to introduce historical evidence/accuracy to the Wikipedia page on the Bennington Triangle." Doug Weller talk 14:20, 27 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Doug, I am TMBrooks. I am writing a historically accurate non-fiction story on the Bennington Triangle. To clarify, I have further updated my website to include where the clippings of newspaper articles had come from, which is my original citation of www.newspapers.com/image/546066440. Those "clippings" on my site are directly from that citation, just cropped down to only the story in question about Middie Rivers. You mentioned the original source was unreliable due to a paywall, so providing the clippings on my website was to both avoid the paywall & licensing issues as well as to provide the original contemporary source itself. I do apologize if my citation methods are not in strict compliance with how Wikipedia operates. I just wanted to provide said accurate information one way or another. TheCorrectorOfAzgard (talk) 00:07, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks but the main issue is your relationship to the article and the story you are writing. Please see and comply with the notice above. Doug Weller  talk 07:11, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, TheCorrectorOfAzgard. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Bennington Triangle, 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:


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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. Doug Weller talk 09:28, 28 August 2022 (UTC)