User talk:Jhoward734
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Sincerely, scope_creepTalk 17:48, 25 July 2019 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
Felix Velarde[edit]
Hi @Jhoward734: Looking at the promotional text you want to put in, of the six paragraphs and one sentence, three of the paragraphs are not referenced properly or not at all, one has a reference to IMDB which is illegal. The sentence linking Velarde to prominent architect F. X. Velarde also has no reference, and then there is a chunk about some agency he was directing winning a whole bunch of non-notable awards. That about an agency he is working for, not him. On top of that announcing a future event which violates WP:BALL with an illegal event listing ref. As far as I know this is WP:BLP article and it need high quality content that is verifiable. scope_creepTalk 18:04, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
Paid Work[edit]
Hello Jhoward734. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Felix Velarde, 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, and if it does not, 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:Jhoward734. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jhoward734|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. | scope_creepTalk 10:54, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
User has stated they are not being paid and do not have a conflict of interest. scope_creepTalk 14:02, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
Royal we?[edit]
Can you explain this where you refer to yourself as "we"? Please note that WP:SHAREDACCOUNT use is prohibited and may result in a block. —DIYeditor (talk) 12:38, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
- It not a shared account. He's talking about collaboration. Next time do a bit of reading/research before you post such a nonsensical comment. scope_creepTalk 12:46, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
- scope_creep, I was following up on what Uncle G said at COI/N. Also it is not immediately clear from that section who this "we" is that Jhoward speaks authoritatively for, or from the history or talk page at the article. —DIYeditor (talk) 13:24, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
- It not a shared account. He's talking about collaboration. Next time do a bit of reading/research before you post such a nonsensical comment. scope_creepTalk 12:46, 6 August 2019 (UTC)