BrookyTH

The following Wikipedia contributors may be personally or professionally connected to the subject of the article. Relevant policies and guidelines may include conflict of interest, autobiography, and neutral point of view.

BrookyTH has been paid by Jamie Waller. Their editing has included contributions to this article.

Hello BrookyTH. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:BrookyTH. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BrookyTH|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Melcous (talk) 11:46, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Note

Thank you for disclosing your conflict of interest. However, your removal of In 2014 the firm attempted unsuccessfully to obtain a legal injunction preventing the BBC from airing a Panorama episode critical of the company's practices. In 2015 the Crown Prosecution Service dropped charges against a man arrested for allegedly assaulting a JBW bailiff, concluding that the bailiff was trespassing and that the man was within his rights to use reasonable force to eject him. seems rather at odds with your statement above We will not remove or delete any information considered sensitive or controversial. Note that Wikipedia does not aim to be up to date, but reflects everything that has ever been published about a subject - Information does not have a shelf life. Please also take the time to learn how referencing works here. Thank you SmartSE (talk) 13:24, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Reply

Hi and thanks for your message on my talk page. There are a few things that need to happen before the unpaid editing notice can be removed:

1. You need to disclose that you are a paid editor with respect to this article on your user page using the Template:Paid
2. You need to disclose on the article's talk page that you are a connected contributor (paid) using the Template:Connected contributor (paid)
3. The edits you made have largely already been reverted so there is nothing else you need to do there, but from now on, you should not edit the article directly, instead making any requests on the talk page using the Template: Request edit. The best way to do is this is one piece of information at a time, so if there is something you think is incorrect or missing from the article, on the talk page suggest what you think it should be changed to or what should be added, and provide a reference for the content so that other editors can see clearly that it is verifiable
4. You shouldn't remove the undisclosed paid editing tag at the top of the article yourself, that should be done by a non-involved editor, but once you have made the appropriate disclosures feel free to leave me a message and I will be happy to remove it
5. Finally, if you have any other questions, or run into trouble using the templates (it can be tricky starting out) feel free to ask!

Thanks, Melcous (talk) 10:17, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

A couple more things:

1. in your note above you use the term "we" - can you please clarify that this account is being used by one person only? Wikipedia accounts cannot be shared between more than one person. If someone else from your firm wants to edit, they will need their own account, and they too will need to make the same disclosures and abide by the same guidelines.
2. when you leave a message on another editor's talk page or on an article talk page, please "sign" your post by adding four tildes (~ this symbol) at the end, so that the wikipedia software will automatically add you name, the time, and a link to your talk page.

Thanks Melcous (talk) 10:22, 18 January 2018 (UTC)