User talk:Tatianacooper16

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Hello, Tatianacooper16, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, your edit to Vicky Ward 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.

There's a page about the NPOV policy that has tips on how to effectively write about disparate points of view without compromising the NPOV status of the article as a whole. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Questions page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, click here to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Below are a few other good links for newcomers:

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!  Nayyn (talk) 20:16, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nayyn,
Thank you for your attention to the page. I’m concerned that you have repeatedly removed factual, well-sourced biographical details from Vicky Ward’s page while also introducing spelling and grammar errors! All of the content added is supported by multiple citations and reliable references, and such verifiable information is exactly what belongs on a Wikipedia page.
There are no grounds to remove well-sourced, non-promotional facts. If you believe any material violates Wikipedia’s policies, please raise your concerns on the Talk page with clear references to policy, rather than repeatedly deleting properly cited content. Tatianacooper16 (talk) 21:13, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Tatianacooper16
I have raised the concerns on the talk page of the article. Additions such as the school Ward's family members graduated from, promotional wikilinks to every article subject she has ever written about, and additions of external links in the article itself do not follow Wikipedia's manual of style. Nor do the use of promotional external links to her upcoming books/literary output. Appropriate sources are those that are reliable in that they are independent of the subject. Many of the links you describe are not Independent, nor signficiant coverage of Ward herself. Links to articles she has written are not independent of her. Nayyn (talk) 21:56, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

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Information icon Hello, Tatianacooper16. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Vicky Ward, 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:

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, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Please see article's talk page about why the edits you've made have been undone. Nayyn (talk) 20:27, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

August 2025

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Hello Tatianacooper16. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Vicky Ward, 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:Tatianacooper16. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Tatianacooper16|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. Taffer😊💬(she/they) 22:23, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Tatianacooper16. Thank you for updating your user page with your paid editing disclosure! I can't speak for admins or folks more experience with paid editing than me, but you didn't know some of Wikipedia's arcane editing rules, so that disclosure makes it water under the bridge for me.
For clarity, you're absolutely allowed to propose changes to the article on it's talk page via edit requests. That way, a neutral editor can review the changes and implement them if there's no glaring problems. Let me know if you have other questions. Thank you again :) Taffer😊💬(she/they) 16:44, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]