User talk:Wpowers001

April 2022
Hello Wpowers001. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Curtis Arboretum (Wyncote), 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:Wpowers001. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:10, 25 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi --
 * I do not have ANY financial interest in this topic. I am not being compensated in any way, nor will I be, for any edits to this page. I simply live near the park, and want to update the historical information about it.
 * In fact, there really is no financial interest to be had. The subject of the page is a public park, owned and maintained by the local township. It is not a business or any other money-making operation. Wpowers001 (talk) 18:08, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for clearing that up. Also, WP:EXTERNALREL states: "Any external relationship—personal, religious, political, academic, legal, or financial (including holding a cryptocurrency)—can trigger a COI." Magnolia677 (talk) 18:24, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Does living near the park constitute a "personal" relationship?
 * By the way, all of the information in my recent edits came from the township's Master Plan document that I listed as a reference. So it isn't really "unsourced". If there is a better way to list the reference, I'm happy to do that. Wpowers001 (talk) 18:28, 25 April 2022 (UTC)