User talk:Gary the Gary

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Happy editing! Cheers, 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 ^{[𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺]} 14:32, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

땡규~ 210.110.104.24 (talk) 14:34, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Edits

Hi Gary the Gary! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Brocade River Poems (She/They) 09:51, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

COI

Hello Gary the Gary! I've recently noticed that almost all of your contributions add content sourced from the same publication and author. While individually these edits wouldn't violate Wikipedia's editing policy, the cumulative sum of these parts has led me to believe you have an apparent conflict of interest.
To summarize what this means for you as an editor and how it can affect you, a conflict of interest on Wikipedia means that you have a personal connection to the subject of your edit. This can involve editing content that addresses yourself, your business, your country, etc. The reason why this is frowned upon heavily here is because Wikipedia's primary objective is to present the facts as neutrally as possible, and bias influences the reason why you make edits in the manner you do.
Internal preferences and prejudices are an unavoidable but manageable part of life for everyone. However, personal connection often manifests as advertising, promoting a certain view of the subject, or simply using the platform to increase your visibility. In your situation, there is reasonable evidence to assume you have a conflict of interest in relation to the Korea Times and the "scholar and cultural critic David Tizzard". By only using articles from the publication and author in question, it is a logical conclusion that you have done so because of whatever benefit is gained from increasing the visibility of the subject and their views. Sirocco745 (talk) 10:06, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you for your explanation. I appreciate you taking the time to do so and am now more aware of the terms and use of Wikipedia. Gary the Gary (talk) 01:48, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm honestly surprised to see a response this quickly, but it's great to see! Do note that while you don't necessarily have to remove these COI edits, it would be greatly appreciated if you did so regardless. Also! You can add {{User_COI}} to your userpage to publicly declare that you have a conflict of interest. The template has some extra parameters, but for you, this is what I would recommend:

{{User_COI | 1 = Korea Times}}, which produces:

This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Korea Times.

You can add |text= to the template to say anything extra that you want. It goes like this:

{{User_COI | 1 = Korea Times | text = this is me writing an example!}}

Which makes:

This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding these Wikipedia articles:

Korea Times
this is me writing an example!

Sirocco745 (talk) 02:03, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]