User talk:Patrickthomas93

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August 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Ashley John-Baptiste has been reverted.
Your edit here to Ashley John-Baptiste was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://twitter.com/AshleyJBaptiste/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
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Hello, I'm Tacyarg. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Ashley John-Baptiste have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. I've added https://mycovenant.org.uk to the external link section at the end of the article. The other link was already there. Tacyarg (talk) 12:05, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Possible conflict of interest

Hi, I'm wondering if you work for talent4media given some of your edits? If so, please see the conflict of interest links I'm about to post. Tacyarg (talk) 12:09, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi Tacyarg,

I can confirm I work for T4M, our client, Ashley has asked for us to make these changes, we are simply highlighting his work reel rather than imparting promotional or opinion based content. Is there any way around this please?

Best,

Patrick Patrickthomas93 (talk) 13:21, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for confirming your conflict of interest. Please follow the links below for fuller information, but the short version is that you may post requests on the article's Talk page for others to make the edits. Tacyarg (talk) 13:29, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

@Patrickthomas93: Also, to comply with the mandatory and non-negotiable paid editing disclosure policy, you should make a highly visible disclosure using the {{paid}} template on your userpage (User:Patrickthomas93). On the same page you should also list the name of every client whose article you have already edited, or plan to in the future. I see that you have already edited the articles of Matt Baker, Gloria Hunniford and Lindsey Russell, all of whom are talent4media clients. Please do not make any further edits to articles until you provide this required disclosure. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:21, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Patrickthomas93. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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, clients, or competitors;
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• 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. Tacyarg (talk) 12:10, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Patrickthomas93! Your additions to Ashley John-Baptiste 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.

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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. Tacyarg (talk) 12:29, 24 August 2022 (UTC)