Edsy2020

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Hello, Edsy2020, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Brian Vincent (director), 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.

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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, visit the Teahouse, 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! Wikishovel (talk) 06:15, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the tips! I am new at this, but wanted to contribute starting with this new page. I went ahead and looked at several of the Tutorial pages which help me understand how to write with an extreme Neutral Point of View. I think I edited my changes to be neutral. I will continue to research your vast Help Materials! Let me know if you think I was successful in making the wording Neutral on the Page Brian Vincent (director). I would be grateful for any more advice. Edsy2020 (talk) 14:40, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024

Hello Edsy2020. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Make Me Famous (2021 film), 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Edsy2020. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Edsy2020|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. Wikishovel (talk) 17:53, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello Wikishovel. I am NOT being paid to add to ANY Wiki pages. I am new at the wiki editing, so I am just learning the concept of the very important Neutral Point of View. I see that you say to make bold edits and that particular page was a stub and said needed help expanding it. I believe I altered most everything to reflect a NPOV but I will keep working at that if you let me continue editing for Wiki. All the information I added is widely available on the web. Please let me know if I can proceed doing editing. I got laid up and it's really fun to double check links and add info to pages. I fixed another page by just researching the rotten links and correctly inputting them. Please advise. Edsy2020 (talk) 19:03, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your quick reply, and thanks for confirming that you're not being paid to edit articles about Mr Vincent. I noticed that you uploaded the posed photo File:Brian Vincent director.jpg as your own work. What is your connection with him? Wikishovel (talk) 20:50, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Wikishovel, I saw his documentary in NY. He did a Q/A and it was after that event I took the photo. It was taken on the street with my iPhone on portrait mode, though. It wasn’t posed, but he was nice and let me take it. All the information I wrote was documented on the web. I kind of got sucked into the Wiki editing, because it is fun. I found the movie page and realized the director didn’t have a page. I did not get any compensation for it. I thought it would be a good way to practice the editing to do it from start to finish. Once you learn the model, it starts to get easier. Edsy2020 (talk) 04:03, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. Happy editing! Wikishovel (talk) 06:43, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

One last question please: the photo in question was posted to this page in January 2024, and credited to his wife. What's your connection with her please? Wikishovel (talk) 14:33, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Oh sorry, just seeing this message. I sent the photo to their movie instagram and she mentioned she might want to post it. I gave her permission for any usage they wanted. Edsy2020 (talk) 22:21, 16 July 2024 (UTC)