Barbra Gayle

September 2019

Hello Barbra Gayle. 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, 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:Barbra Gayle. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Barbra Gayle|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. Hug^syrup 14:25, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Dear Hugsyrup,

Thank you for your response. I, Tim Wilson have been using the Barbra Gayle username sandbox to create an article for a client of Barbra Gayle. As a completely new Wikipedia editor I was unaware that each user space reflects an individual editor. The owner of the Barbra Gayle username space also did not know or understand the single editor user space relationship. We apologize. I will set up my own username space later today. I will acknowledge on my own user space that I receive remuneration from a business that represents to their client(s) that a Wikipedia Biographical Article will be created for them. I read through the appropriate sections in Wikipedia about COI and especially 'paid' editing. I will incorporate the correct templates and the appropriate information contained within in my user name space talk page and also within particular article edits. Despite various warnings that paid editors should NOT create articles - most especially for living Biographical personages - I would like to create an Article in my new user name space sandbox and submit it for consideration. FYI - much of the info. I receive is from personal interviews with the perspective client. There is only ONE now as I wanted to become familiar with the editing process AND to understand potential future problems. These interviews have not been published. Though I suppose they could. Is it problematic if I use information gleaned from these interview within an article? Examples being. Date and place of birth. Parents/Sibling names. Dates of changes of residence. Important events (that I can cite) as having influence over the Client's life. The article I am writing concerns a living musician who fulfills the notoriety aspects of Biographical writing. I am signing this as Barbra Gayle and as soon as I read your response here I will establish my own user space. I will indicate to the owner of the Barbra Gayle space that them may wish to change their user space and the password associated with same. Please bear with a new user/editor's confusion while attempting to climb the Wikipedia learning curve along with trying to understand correct Wikipedia policies and syntax. I haver been a Wikipedia user since the Project started and have experience in the news article and editing areas. Barbra Gayle (talk) 20:07, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

@Barbra Gayle: Hi Tim. Thanks for your reply. Could I suggest that you message me from your new account - you can drop me a note at my talk page.

Thank you for committing to use the Paid editing disclosure. If you do that, and only ever submit articles through the WP:AFC process, you should not run in to any problems. However I should warn you that most people who are paying to have articles written about them are, by definition, probably not notable enough to have an article so you may find that your articles are often declined.

Is it problematic if I use information gleaned from these interview within an article? - Yes, I'm afraid it is. Information in articles, and especially in Biographies, must be sourced to a reliable published source. Hug^syrup 08:29, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hi Barbra Gayle! You created a thread called Biographic Articles - citation structure at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread. Archival by Lowercase sigmabot III, notification delivery by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} (ban this bot) or {{nobots}} (ban all bots) on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Shared accounts

Hi Barbara Gayle. Please take the time to carefully read through WP:SHAREDACCOUNT. It's against Wikipedia policy for multiple people to edit from the same account; so, please don't share your password with others so that they can edit. Any problematic edits made with this account will be attributed to this account regardless of who is making them, and an administrator will block this account if necessary to prevent disruption. Moreover, accounts believed to be compromised often are indefinitely blocked as a precaution. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:36, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

I have blocked this account due to the security issue of shared passwords. The account User:Timgwilson may still be used as long as you comply with all aspects of Wikipedia's paid editing policy. Yunshui ^雲_水 06:45, 13 September 2019 (UTC)