LMG2000

September 2021

Hello, I'm Usernamekiran (AWB). I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to Timothy Gallaudet because they seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. —usernamekiran(talk) 22:02, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

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December 2022

Hello, I'm Lastsoundofdefense. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Timothy Gallaudet, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Lastsoundofdefense (talk) 02:42, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

February 2024

Hello LMG2000. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Timothy Gallaudet, 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 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:LMG2000. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=LMG2000|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. Nat Gertler (talk) 16:07, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello - I am not being compensated for my edits. The edits I have made are merely because the page I am editing is about a person whom is my father, so I am trying to help him make sound and resourced edits since he I have a better understanding of technologies such as Wikipedia editing. I apologize for any confusion. LMG2000 (talk) 16:55, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

If you are editing a page about your father, even if not being paid and have good intentions (as I'm sure you do), then you have what Wikipedia considers to be a conflict of interest. I recommend you click that link to see our guidelines for editing when you have such a conflict. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 17:44, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, LMG2000, for your honesty. As NatGertler has written above, please do read Wikipedia's guideline about editing with a conflict of interest: WP:COI. Although you clearly have a conflict of interest regarding Timothy Gallaudet, you can still propose edits at the article's Talk page. But before doing so, and seeing that you are new here, I suggest that you first learn a bit about the general standards and behavioral expectations associated with editing Wikipedia. A good place to start that process is here. I realize that I have suggested to you a fair amount of reading! However, it will help you to understand the purpose of Wikipedia (for example, it is not intended for commercial/personal promotion), the type of content that is, and is not, included in its articles (for example, content should be sourced to reliable, secondary, independent sources), and the process of consensus, which is the model through which editors interact collaboratively to determine article content. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 18:09, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay! Apologies for any issues I may have caused. Thank you for letting me know, and thank you for the resources so that I can make sure I stick to the guidelines. I will hit the metaphorical books & check out the articles you have linked so I can be more informed in the future. LMG2000 (talk) 05:22, 3 March 2024 (UTC)