There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you.

Please declare any conflict of interest you have with the Ed Massey article, at the WP:COIN discussion lined above.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:23, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There is no conflict of interest. This is my first (and last) Wikipedia page. Ed Massey's art is everywhere in Los Angeles, and he's frequently in my Los Angeles Times paper. I just wanted to try to make a Wikipedia page about this artist.Vestasung (talk) 05:02, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I also refer you to ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_bite_the_newbies

There are more articles where these came from. If the intent is to bully and destroy days of work, then the attempt has been successful. Bravo. Vestasung (talk) 08:25, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Vestasung. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask a question on your talk page. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 02:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm ThatMontrealIP. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Ed Massey have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia.

You need to address the questions at WP:COIN before continuing to edit the Massey article. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 04:31, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What promotional? Give me an example? Take out what you want. I'm just putting in facts and making corrections if too much has been hacked to compromise facts and accuracy.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Vestasung (talk • contribs) Vestasung (talk) 05:05, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please reply to the COI issue at the COIN link above.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 04:56, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Vestasung. 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:Vestasung. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Vestasung|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. David Gerard (talk) 06:58, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

{No. I am not getting anything for my work. Nothing at all. Not one red cent. My edits follow suggestions in order to put the information into the page. This is a personal project. I am being thorough and looking up press articles for deleted projects, and putting back in the projects where I have found articles. I have also answered the Conflict of Interest question numerous times. Kindly restore the last several, very time consuming, edits. Vestasung (talk) 07:21, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I also refer you to ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_bite_the_newbies

There are more articles where these came from. If the intent is to bully and destroy days of work, then the attempt has been successful. Bravo. Vestasung (talk) 08:21, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Ed Massey, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Melcous (talk) 04:50, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Ed Massey, you may be blocked from editing. Your claims not to have a conflict of interest do not appear credible. Please use the talk page to discuss or propose edits rather than continuing to insert promotional content. Melcous (talk) 00:03, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I just spoke to someone who's written articles before, and he said the "you broke it, you fix it" rule does not apply to Wikipedia, that it's no longer my responsibility to edit to perfection. Now I know.

Thank you. Vestasung (talk) 02:50, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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