User talk:Hershmaj2017

Ownership of articles

Hello. I wanted to let you know that in your recent contributions, you seemed to act as if you were the owner of a page. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia. This means that editors do not own articles, including ones they create, and should respect the work of their fellow contributors. If you create or edit an article, remember that others are free to change its content. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:47, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict-of-interest

Hello, Hershmaj2017. 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
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. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:47, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Biographies of living persons; we do not list names of non-notable relatives per WP:BLPPRIVACY

Hello, I'm Ohnoitsjamie. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:47, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The reliable source is Philip Michael Thomas. What better reliability is there? Hershmaj2017 (talk) 22:19, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:ABOUTSELF; per our verification policy in certain cases, a self-published source is fine (e.g., someone announcing on their Instagram that they got married, etc). It's prefereable to use third-party sources when possible. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 23:04, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Per your own statement, you work for the The Angel Blossom Company [1], a PR company that is employed by Philip Michael Thomas. I'm glad to see you declared the COI on your user page, but you seem to be having problems changing images on the article, and confusing semi-protection with an unprotected article. I'm not sure if you have any experience editing Wikipedia or not, but it might be a better idea to use the talk page of the article rather than editing direct, both because of the conflict of interest, and because you don't seem to know how to change a photo, which I see you did manage to upload to Commons. You can also ask for help at the WP:Teahouse but I recommend you always make it clear you are a paid editor. Not all volunteers are as helpful or thrilled when you are getting paid and you aren't fully up front about it. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 13:30, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

One important note, I'm guessing this was you editing while logged out, [2] and I would STRONGLY recommend you be more careful and only edit while logged in, as you are a paid editor, and it might look to some like you are trying to get around our rules on reverting edits by logging out, ie: WP:sockpuppetry. Again, you probably want to use the article talk page and request edits there, to be honest. Paid editing is tolerated here, barely, but you will likely be more successful in achieving your goals if you tread carefully. I updated the image for you, but that doesn't guarantee it will stay if other editors feel the older photo is better. That is how it works. Neither Philip nor you get to decide, only a consensus of editors decide the content. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 13:34, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]