User talk:RClarkeBoult

July 2023

Hello RClarkeBoult. 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 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:RClarkeBoult. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RClarkeBoult|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. 331dot (talk) 13:17, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi RClarkeBoult. It's very rare that any should edit someone else's user page, but I noticed that you were having a problem with the paid declaration. I've corrected the formatting, I hope this is OK with you. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 14:34, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Martin, we can't access the original account of the page, hence why i have been trying to make the edits myself 87.74.148.193 (talk) 08:52, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Are you this user, and are you saying you have lost access to this account? 331dot (talk) 08:57, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Sorry to appear a little heavy handed, but both "we" and "the original account of the page" ring an alarm bells. Editors have accounts which must not be shared. Articles (pages) do not have accounts. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 09:02, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]