User talk:PeterVonBass

November 2024

Hello PeterVonBass. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Chris Daniels (musician), 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:PeterVonBass. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=PeterVonBass|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. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:22, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have directly communicated on my user page that I am being directly compensated by Chris Daniels. PeterVonBass (talk) 18:17, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Chris Daniels (musician). Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 00:10, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It really would be better if you made edit requests rather than editing the article yourself, as explained in the paid editing guide. Thanks. AntiDionysius (talk) 00:10, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I searched wiki for "paid editing guide" and nothing had that title. What I did read from the search results didn't have anything in there about making edit requests. Please send me a link of the article. Thank you. PeterVonBass (talk) 18:36, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing I have added is from my point of view. Add edits are directed by Chris Daniels. PeterVonBass (talk) 18:17, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Please read the COI guidelines. Please use the edit request template on the talk page instead of directly editing articles. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 00:11, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No promotional or advertising material has been added. Some updated info and a new photo. Please confirm that I have completed all requirements so that Chris Daniels' updates are added, and his information is to his preference. Thank you. PeterVonBass (talk) 18:21, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the {{Edit COI}} template to your talk page request. It is likely that it would never have been noticed without it.

I recommend that you look at Wikipedia:Edit requests to learn the process to submit edit requests. Very lengthy edit requests are unlikely to be looked at; as are requests that are unsupported by references to sources that are both reliable and independent as Wikipedia defines them.

Please note that the subject of an article does not have any right of ownership or control over its content. Of course, we strive to have accurate, fair and balanced articles. But Wikipedia's policies of verifiability, neutrality and avoidance of original research take priority over the personal wishes of the subject. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:15, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Drum310 for adding the COI template. You're a life-saver. I appreciate you helping me understand Wikipedia and it's policies better, as well as the link to the edit requests. I will definitely read it. PeterVonBass (talk) 20:25, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New message from Drm310

Hello, PeterVonBass. You have new messages at Talk:Chris Daniels (musician).
Message added 14:26, 14 November 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:26, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]