User talk:RockEditorLikeMe

December 2019

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Desiree Gruber. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Lapablo (talk) 12:28, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, RockEditorLikeMe, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Desiree Gruber, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Lapablo (talk) 12:29, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Your question

The thing is, paid editing is against our rules. Now, obviously, there are still people who do it anyway, so the category and the tag exist because we have to have a mechanism to identify and repair (or delete) the articles that were affected by it — but precisely because it's against the rules, the responsible and committed editors here can't and won't give you advice or support on doing it. If you're really that determined to do it anyway, then it's a thing you would have to figure out for yourself — but it's not a path to getting rich, and Wikipedia is not going to give you a how-to guide to breaking our rules.

And as for the cleanup tag on Desiree Gruber, the thing is that the changes you made were fairly minor ones that didn't actually address the substance of why the tag was added in the first place. The rule isn't that the tag can be removed as soon as somebody else makes any edits at all — the article has to be checked for a lot more than just grammar and formatting, such as conflict of interest and promotional issues, so it has to clear a much higher burden of cleanup before the tag can be removed than what you did.

There's absolutely no way that editing Wikipedia is the only skill you have. If you have skills in editing Wikipedia, then by definition you also have skills in editing other things: newspapers, corporate or government press releases, books. Bearcat (talk) 15:58, 4 December 2019 (UTC)