User talk:TonyMWeaver

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MV Baie de Seine
Hi Tony. Thanks for your edits to this article! I'm currently looking through the recent changes to it, and seeing if there's more that can be added to it. I see that you removed the references from it a few days ago. Please don't do this, as everything on Wikipedia needs to be verifiable and citing sources is the way to do this. Along the same lines, whenever you add new information please make sure to add references for it. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:51, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

April 2018
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Links
Hello. You added a lot of links to an "official" Brittany Ferries fan page. There's a bit of a problem with that. First, we don't link to fan sites. Second, if it's "official" then you have a conflict of interest and should not be editing articles about the company. You might like to clarify that? Thanks Guy (Help!) 08:42, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, TonyMWeaver. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Brittany Ferries, 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 please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. - wolf  05:32, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

April 2019
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Brittany Ferries; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

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There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --Lyndaship (talk) 18:24, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Blocked
I've blocked you for one week for disruptive editing, including promotional WP:COI-based edits, copyright violations, and editing abusively while logged out. See WP:GAB for your appeal rights.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:39, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

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Brittany Ferries
Hi ,

what is your connection to Brittany Ferries?

Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:51, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Yes, what is your connection to Brittany Ferries?
Hello TonyMWeaver. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Brittany Ferries, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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:TonyMWeaver. 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. Ian.thomson (talk) 10:36, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Ian.thomson, my apologies, I am confused with how to write or reply to messages. This seems to be the only thing on Wikipedia are am unable to do. Re: Brittany Ferries, apart from running a Fan Page on Facebook & Twitter, I am in no way associated with the ferry company, paid or otherwise. The reason why the section of 'Future Fleet' was removed was to prevent a editing war with another user who is constantly incorrectly editing the section of 'Honfleur'. I fully understand that this is not my jurisdiction and will happily put it back on. I would appreciate it though if you could contact the person who is incorrectly editing this section. Every edit I have made on Brittany Ferries is 100% fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyMWeaver (talk • contribs)
 * You can add a timestamped signature to your posts by using four tildes (like ~ ).
 * Personal knowledge and insistence that something is 100% fact are not reliable sources.
 * Wikipedia is a summary of professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources, without addition, nor commentary -- see WP:V for more information. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:55, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

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