User talk:RGHenry

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Hello, RGHenry, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, your edit to Bonnyville does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Magnolia677 (talk) 17:46, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How did I go against NPOV?

How, exactly, did I go against the NPOV? My first edit was about Bonnyville being at the intersection of Hwy. 41 and Hwy. 28, which is a fact. That is where Bonnyville is physically located. My second edit was to state Bonnyville is located roughly 2.5 hours from Edmonton, which is another fact. These are not my interpretations. How were they wrong and why did they warrant removal? RGHenry (talk) 17:29, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

April 2023

Hello RGHenry. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Bonnyville, 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 compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. 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 very 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 extremely 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:RGHenry. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RGHenry|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. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:30, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]