User talk:Thegaffer23

The Starfish Project
Hi there, yes no probs. I had previously linked the McGuire Programme at the bottom of the page and didn't feel it needed it twice, that was the only reason.

Hi there. Can I ask why you reversed the edit linking to the McGuire Programme? I think it is helpful for people reading that section to be able to visit the corresponding McGuire Programme page. What is your thinking? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heatley (talk • contribs) 22:02, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Starfish Project
I note you made an edit to the Starfish Project page. If you are alleging that Anne Blight "stole" from McGuire you should be aware that McGuire was not the first to use costal berating - it was the Del Ferro institute in Amsterdam. I trust you will amend the McGuire page to state this given you seem keen on making sure proper attribution is given. Plus, it's "taken" and not "took".

Where in any edits was it mentioned she stole anything? The harsh reality is that AB DID take techniques from McGuire. McGuire use Del Ferro, Sheehan, Van Riper methods but apparently, according to you, Anne did it all alone. Misleading and untruthful. Shame on you. I won't be editing again as it's pointless fixing lies.

Starfish Project
Your edit was removed because it is unverified. It be fine to say that AB was previously involved with the McGuire Programme, but that's about as far as the factual point goes.

I forgot that Anne has her army of willing lackeys. Nothing I said was untrue. I do have some old photographs of her at a BSA meeting with her McGuire team. I'll look then out so I can reference it. And by the way, please look at your use of a semi colon, shocking.

August 2020
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page Nicola Sturgeon has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 12:38, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

October 2020
Hello Thegaffer23. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to McGuire programme, 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.

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Hi Cordless Larry,

I'm not sure if I'm replying to this properly. I am not a paid advocate of the McGuire Programme and I have no financial stake in the organisation so I'm not sure what to do. I think it was fair to try and link the course to the UKs leading charity?

Best Wishes,

AdamThegaffer23 (talk) 11:11, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from McGuire programme. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:16, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Please don't remove this template again without addressing the problem it highlights, otherwise you are liable to be blocked from editing. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:20, 7 April 2021 (UTC)