User talk:VRlasso

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February 2022
Hello VRlasso. 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:VRlasso. 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. SANTADICAE🎅 19:00, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello- I have absolutely no undisclosed financial stake in promoting this topic. I am not paid nor will never be paid; I am not sure as to why this has been the conclusion from my edits?? This notable person I am researching is part of the ballet world's legacy and a pioneering woman in the field. I have no affiliation or employment with this person. On a side note, navigating Wikipedia has been a very difficult process and I am finding there is not a lot of inclusitivity or positive support for legitimately smart and informed people wanting to contribute. VRlasso 19:19, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * It's extremely promotional like that of her PR department. Further, can you explain how you have no connection yet this is your own work? CUPIDICAE💕  19:23, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Hmmm- I am not liking this at all. I work at Microsoft. I contacted the photographer and asked her how I should tag the photo and if I could have rights to the headshot. I explained to her what I was doing and she gave me permission to use this image. How is my edit promotional? Very curious here. I need specifics. VRlasso 19:29, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I am not sure if you saw my above response, but I am finding your feedback to be accusatory and I do not like it. I am volunteering A LOT of my time trying to navigate how to do all of this on Wikipedia by myself with the help of tutorials. I am writing a DRAFT right now on Ms. Russell and I had no idea I/it was being policed. This is not my final copy- I am piecing it together as I find information. I have been utilizing the special archives at University of Washington to put this all together, in addition to taking information off Pacific Northwest Ballet's website. It is a step by step process akin to putting together a puzzle. I am going to have to remove the image as it seems to be causing great distress among you and SANTADICAE here but how do I get an image in the Article? Do I have to contact the photographer and have her do it by creating her own Wikipedia account and inserting the image after the Article has (hopefully) been officially approved and published? In the meantime, please don't assume the worst of people. It's not cool and it's completely demoralizing after all the research and time I have put in here. Thanks.

VRlasso 20:06, 11 February 2022 (UTC)