User talk:Jsherlock

Ravenswood School edits

I just reverted a number of additions to the Ravenswood page. Each person added to the 'notable alumni' list needs to be notable by Wikipedia's definition, see WP:N. Also please see: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Article_guidelines#Alumni.

Do you have a connection to the school??? Please see WP:COI if there is a chance you have a conflictof interest. Regards, Ariconte (talk) 23:16, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Paid editing?

I see you are paid for your editing work. You are therefore required to declare it; please see WP:PAID. Regards, Ariconte (talk) 03:56, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

ANI notice re Paid editing

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Ariconte (talk) 04:52, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

January 2016

Hello Jsherlock. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. 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.

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, 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:Jsherlock. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jsherlock|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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Chesnaught555 (talk) 19:06, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

FYI

Hello. Thanks for trying to ask how to make an edit, and apologies for the temporary technical glitch which meant you weren't able to. FYI I've made this edit. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 23:06, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

• zzuuzz, I was just about to make that same edit--and then block the editor for an irredeemable COI and promotional edits... Drmies (talk) 02:28, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
  • @Drmies: then I'm glad to have got there before you and I'm happy to share an opinion with an esteemed colleague. If you can parse any of the stuff posted above, you might get the impression that politely making a request at the help desk about making an edit, whilst clearly specifying a COI, is not a bad thing (for others reading this, this stuff is only visible to admins). On top of that, it is one thing to add (or remove) things in an article. It is quite another to seek to fix a clear error that we are displaying. And I also note an editing gap of nearly 3 years. I'm sorry, I consider this behaviour exemplary. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 06:26, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
    • I'm glad too, zzuuzz: I don't mind being corrected by someone with sense and gravitas (I wish you'd consider running for ArbCom). So don't apologize; I'm glad for your comment. I do hope the editor is reading this, and will consider that this kind of edit has no encyclopedic value, even though it would be perfectly appropriate for the school website.

      Jsherlock, please look up, at an earlier comment: you mentioned you had a COI--now it's time to put it right, by sticking that template on your user page, per the instructions above. Also, have a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines. You have a COI with the school, and I have one with Wikipedia--I want our articles to look beautiful AND meet our guidelines. Our two COIs don't need to be at odds--a better-looking and neutral Wikipedia article isn't against the school's interest. And we have some highly knowledgeable editors around, like User:John from Idegon, who know these guidelines inside and out and can provide assistance if you are in doubt. Drmies (talk) 15:23, 9 November 2018 (UTC)