Thomas Went

May 2023

Hello Thomas Went. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Checkatrade.com, 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:Thomas Went. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Thomas Went|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. Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 12:54, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Fancy Refrigerator,

Yes, my employer was instructed to update this page on behalf of Checkatrade. We stressed that any changes would need to be accurate and factual, avoiding any promotional language. I was unaware that I need to disclose this agreement but I am happy to do so. I will update the user page accordingly.

Thanks

Thomas Thomas Went (talk) 14:10, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

CS1 error on Checkatrade.com

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Checkatrade.com, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 14:18, 22 May 2023 (UTC)