User talk:Zoewright96

Re. Duffy
Hi. I noticed your edits at Duffy (singer). Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. You have to source your statements with a citation (see WP:PROVEIT and WP:CITE). I've left your edit up, as at a glance I can't see a source for the previous name, but it isn't really sufficient to request people to email you for verification. It would be preferable if you could find a source that confirms her name, e.g. an article in a newspaper, like the BBC or The Guardian (just to give an example, many more reliable sources are fine), which can back up your statement. ProcrasinatingReader (talk) 13:25, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello Zoewright96. 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 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:Zoewright96. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 13:23, 12 June 2020 (UTC)