User talk:HP Village Isabel Miller

January 2022

Hello, HP Village Isabel Miller. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Highland Park Village, 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 or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} 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. Thank you. SpinningCeres 03:46, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello HP Village Isabel Miller! Your additions to Highland Park Village have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. SpinningCeres 03:50, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:HP Village Isabel Miller, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=HP Village Isabel Miller|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Ifnord (talk) 20:00, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How do I respond? Here? HP Village Isabel Miller (talk) 20:50, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is this where I can get help? I am just trying to make some factual updates to this company page since it hasn't been updated since 2013. Some of the information has changed or is outdated. Is there somewhere I can list the edits and have someone post them? New to this... Thanks! HP Village Isabel Miller (talk) 21:28, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The standard procedure for COI/paid editing is to list suggested / requested edits on the the article talk page (not user talk page) along with the {{request edit}} template. There is a very long backlog of edits requested by paid/COI editors, so the changes probably won't be implemented quickly. I see that some of the edits you made looked like strictly factual or grammar changes; you'll probably have better luck getting those implemented if they are clearly indicated as such. Make sure your edit requests include a reliable source if it changes the content in any meaningful way. References to highland park's own website should be very limited, if included at all. See WP:PAID and WP:COI for more information. SpinningCeres 21:47, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]