User talk:Bgpicker

October 2023

Hello Bgpicker. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Tim Beamer, 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:Bgpicker. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bgpicker|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. •Cyberwolf• 14:00, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I am not being paid or compensated in any way for my work on this site. Tim Beamer is a friend who overcame tremendous adversity to accomplish what he has. He is not a client. I am simply putting on the record the documented facts of his career because I think they are significant, not just in football but in the history of race relations. That is my sole motivation. Bgpicker (talk) 14:32, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Bgpicker. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Tim Beamer, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;

propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);

disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);

avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);

do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.
In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. I’m so sorry i used the wrong template •Cyberwolf• 15:19, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I fully support your policy and honestly believe that I am complying with it. I had followed Mr. Beamer's career when I was young, living in his home town, but did not know him personally until I decided to look him up a few years ago and could find nothing except incomplete, inaccurate information on Wikipedia's stub. Please take a look at the old stub and compare the quality of that entry to mine. Because his situation typifies the fate of many African American athletes of his generation, athletes who were exploited then forgotten, I felt honor-bound to correct the record. I spent two years digging into the published record, including news articles, archival videos, and records requested from universities. Then i interviewed Mr. Beamer, his former teammates, a former coach, and reporters who covered him. As I talked with Mr. Beamer to confirm what I'd found about him, we became friends. But that happened after the fact of my research. My motives remain as they were when I began: set the record straight with documented facts. I will gain no financial advantage from this entry and neither will Mr. Beamer. I am not his client. For decades now, no one has bothered to correct the record, on Wikipedia or elsewhere. If I don't do that job, who will? Bgpicker (talk) 16:02, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I fully understand im sorry about the inconvenience that this may have caused •Cyberwolf• 16:24, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I appreciate the work you do to ensure integrity. 2600:1700:6B7:C00:474:BA54:EA0D:7F5A (talk) 17:11, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]