User talk:TomAndJess

May 2016
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "TomAndJess", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it suggests it is that of a group or is otherwise shared. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Usernames must indicate that they are only used by one person; sharing usernames is not permitted.  331dot (talk) 23:30, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I made up my name after my two cats, Tommy and Jessica, not after a group of people.


 * Thanks for clarifying that; in terms of policy your name seems acceptable given that, though others may think the same thing I did and comment. I might still recommend that you change it, even if you aren't required to, as it might save you grief later.  You don't need to, however.  Best wishes 331dot (talk) 12:34, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (May 11)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:

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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 23:42, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Siriusmo reverts
Hey, all those discogs links are not reliable for the wikipedia, and should be deleted, same as the links to streaming / download music services. It's not what wikipedia about. The reasons should be in 'references help' article (and this is why you never saw itunes or discogs links in the articles, marked as good)

Fair enough. I would debate discogs being a good reference but I am happy to go with the site rules. I have seen allmusic referenced quite a lot. Is it OK to use them?

Allmusic done mostly by the staff writers (despite this I don't really like it as the reliable source, because of the inaccurate data), while Discogs is just like the vinyl wiki, edited by regular users.

FortDax - "at request of artist"
Hello, TomAndJess. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Chubbles (talk) 12:20, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello TomAndJess. The nature of your edits 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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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:TomAndJess. 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. Chubbles (talk) 12:20, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I am not getting paid out any other form of recompense for writing the fortdax article, or any other article. I did reach out to the artist to check if they were ok with the creation of the article which they were but they did ask that the one link to their site be removed as it is not supposed to exist anymore. They thought they had removed it themselves some time ago. I only created this as a fan and everything in it was sourced independently by myself. I am happy to make any other declarations as well. TomAndJess (talk) 13:18, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Chubbies is this reply enough to be able to edit this page again? TomAndJess (talk) 18:40, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I do not have the power to stop you from editing the page; as Wikipedia loves to advertise, it is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". But please take the above guidelines into consideration as you do. Chubbles (talk) 20:15, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate your attention on this page, you have brought up good points and been very constructive. I have been trying to do things correctly and I take on what you have been saying. TomAndJess (talk) 20:18, 31 October 2021 (UTC)