DennisAdamsDHAM

August 2024

Hello DennisAdamsDHAM. 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 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:DennisAdamsDHAM. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=DennisAdamsDHAM|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) 12:26, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi there,

I am new to Wikipedia, so I apologise if I am in conflict with Wikimedia terms of use.

I am not being paid, and I have no financial stake in the Museum.

I am a volunteer at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum, with responsibility for updating the museum website.

As part of this, I noticed that the Wikipedia page was out of date. For example some of the photos are too old. Also, there are citations needed for information that is either inaccurate, or needs to have a proper citation against the museum website.

So I have been doing these maintenance edits to address these issues, and ensure that the wikipedia page is more accurate.

Can you advise me on what action I need to take?

Kind regards

Dennis 46.208.214.230 (talk) 12:33, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Sorry - I should have logged in before replying above.

Dennis DennisAdamsDHAM (talk) 12:41, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

No problem! AntiDionysius (talk) 12:42, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Ah okay, if you're a volunteer and not an employee then you're not a paid editor (which isn't against the rules anyway, it just comes with various restrictions). You do have a conflict of interest, which just means you're in some way connected off-Wikipedia to something you're writing about. Give the COI guide a quick look, and follow its instructions on declaring your connection. That's all you're strictly required to do.

Generally editors with such conflicts are discouraged from editing directly the relevant articles, but that's a guideline rather than a rule, and from the looks of it your edits have been quite constructive so far. Just keep in mind to always be neutral and make sure you're not adding anything copyrighted (particularly photos). If in doubt, especially with any kind of large expansion of the text, go to the article talk page and ask if someone else could give your edit a quick check before you make it. AntiDionysius (talk) 12:42, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you.

I will check out the guide, and the article talk page.

Kind regards

Dennis DennisAdamsDHAM (talk) 12:45, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, happy editing! AntiDionysius (talk) 12:47, 2 August 2024 (UTC)