User talk:DW Matthew

November 2024

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Due West (band), and I noticed that your username, "DW Team", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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Possible Conflict of interest

Hello DW Matthew. 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 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.

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Good morning. I am not being paid to edit the information on this Wikipedia page. I am a member of the band, and am trying to correct and update the information on the page. Please advise me further on how to make the edits, corrections and additions to our story and information written about on this page. Thanks so much. - Matthew DW Matthew (talk) 16:40, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for explaining your relationship with the article! As you are in the band, you should please read Wikipedia’s guidelines on conflicts of interest and make sure to disclose your COI on your user page. Rather than editing the page directly, you should make an edit request on the articles talk page. If you make a request, it is important to provide reliable, independent sources for any information you want to add to the article. Thank you! -- NotCharizard ^🗨 17:40, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Someone else has now edited the page, and there is incorrect information on it. As a member of the band, I have accurate information.. whoever has been making the most recent edits doesn't have correct facts. DW Matthew (talk) 17:33, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A way to address this specific problem, along with soliciting edit requests, is to substitute well sourced and cited relevant content while removing conflicting content that isn't sourced at all, all else being equal as regards coi and tone.

regards, Augmented Seventh (talk) 21:37, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Due West

Which information is incorrect? I went by what the sources say. Word of mouth cannot be used as a source on Wikipedia, but I'm willing to hear you out on what info may be incorrect and remove it accordingly. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:26, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ETA: I see you've already tended to this. I think you've done a reasonable job in keeping your work neutral and not making the tone promotional. It does look like the article is going to be kept now, and the discussion should close as "keep" within a week, or sooner if the nominator deletes.

For the record, I really liked "When the Smoke Clears". Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:32, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I enjoyed writing that one, and we love performing it live. DW Matthew (talk) 19:03, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I also wrote "Who Loves Who More" on the Thompson Square album which has been certified Gold. The Lady A album is certified multi-platinum - maybe 4X? DW Matthew (talk) 19:05, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think the videos chart positions is noteworthy? (I Get That All The Time, When The Smoke Clears) DW Matthew (talk) 19:06, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As a rule we don't include chart positions for the CMT/GAC video positions because 1.) the positions were archived and 2.) according to our list of charts to avoid, the video networks' charts depend entirely on viewer text messaging and internet voting to compile their lists and encourage multiple votes, along with a limited pool of videos chosen by viewers to fill the list. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:34, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]