User talk:VPinder

February 2023
Hello VPinder. 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.

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:VPinder. 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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:36, 10 February 2023 (UTC)


 * I am not being compensated for these edits, I am an employee of Surrey Wildlife Trust, the information regarding some of our nature reserves are out of date and I was trying to update the information with regards to who manages the nature reserves. Some of the information is now well over 2 years out of date, hence making the amendment edits.  Please do let me know if there is anything else I need to do, otherwise I will no longer continue to make edits.  Kind regards, Victoria Pinder, Conservation Coordinator, Surrey Wildlife Trust VPinder (talk) 09:26, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you very much for the clarification. If you are an employee editing Wikipedia statements about their employer, you are not strictly required to disclose your contributions as "paid", but you still do have a significant financial conflict of interest.
 * You are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly, but you may, perhaps after reading WP:FAQ/Organizations, carefully remove factually incorrect statements from any article including those you have a conflict of interest about. When you do so, please restrict your edits to pure removals. Do not add anything.
 * For example, if an article contains the text "It is managed, together with the nearby Newlands Corner, by the Surrey Wildlife Trust, within the privately owned Albury Estate.", then removing this text is fine. Adding new text like "It is managed by X" is not.
 * Some of your contributions had been reverted by because you had added new text, and that text lacked a citation. If you hadn't added content from your own knowledge and instead restricted your edits to the removal of factually incorrect statements, the reaction would have been different.
 * Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:55, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

A belated welcome!


Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, VPinder! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:


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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:55, 13 February 2023 (UTC)