User talk:Hazy Barn

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Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 19:56, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

September 2024

Hello Hazy Barn. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Hans Zimmer, 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:Hazy Barn. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Hazy Barn|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. Sariel Xilo (talk) 17:18, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

I am not being paid to edit Wikipedia. I am not being paid to do what I do. Hazy Barn (talk) 01:16, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Sariel Xilo. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please review WP:RSPYT which highlights the difference between official accounts & unverified self-published accounts. If the YouTube source was published by EA or Bioware, you could cite it as a primary source. But this source you keep referring to is just some random person's YT channel. Sariel Xilo (talk) 01:30, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Your post at WP:AARV

Hi Hazy Barn, you posted on a noticeboard that's for reviewing administrative actions. That's not the place to take your concerns. Please try to communicate with the other editors directly first, since they should be able to answer your questions. Have you already tried this? -- asilvering (talk) 02:19, 23 September 2024 (UTC)