CPJatTriPointe

Hi! I saw your edit at Talk:Tri Pointe Homes. Your first step is to request a change of username to something that represents you as an individual (not necessarily a real name); we don't allow accounts to be shared, or to have names that suggest that they may be shared. You can request a change at this page.

Once that's done you'll need to make an appropriate paid-editor disclosure. I'll leave some boiler-plate text below with instructions. Thereafter you may continue to post on the talk-page of the article as you've already done, taking care to disclose your paid status whenever you do so. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:47, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

April 2021

Hello TriPointe21. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Tri Pointe Homes, 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 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:TriPointe21. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=TriPointe21|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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:48, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Justlettersandnumbers - do I do that right? I didn't realize this "talk" page was here. Thank you for your help. I have requested a name change as you instructed. I am still a bit confused. I am not exactly sure who made the previous edits but believe they are or were employees of our company who were not authorized to do any of it. We had a rebrand and the page needs to reflect that. Are you able to help me get the page updated or should I handle that a different way? TriPointe21 (talk) 17:48, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Once the name change has been completed, you can go to Talk:Tri Pointe Homes and make use of the {{edit request}} template. With it, you can describe the changes you want, and other neutral editors can review them.

Please note that editors who aren't connected to the company may make changes if they are acting in good faith (which we always assume unless there is clear evidence to the contrary). It's unfortunate that the article was the victim of several sockpuppet editors in recent times, but those are usually a rare occurance. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 18:00, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Drm310 and Justlettersandnumbers my name change was approved and I posted an edit request on the talk page. What do I do now? CPJatTriPointe (talk) 19:37, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I saw the name change, that's good! But I'm afraid the answer to your question is "sit back and wait" – the edit request process is seriously back-logged, and it could be quite some time before yours comes to the top of the heap. As long as your request is very clear, very brief, and fully supported by reliable sources, it has a good chance of being looked at soon. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:44, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

(edit conflict)@CPJatTriPointe: You submitted your edit request on the article talk page correctly. However, please add some references so that editors can verify the changes you requested. Reliable, third-party sources are always preferred, but if none exist, primary sources authored by your company might be acceptable.

After that, the only thing you can do is wait patiently. There is no deadline on Wikipedia; your request is a queue with multiple other edit requests, and reviewing editors will get to it when time permits. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:47, 5 May 2021 (UTC)