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March 2014[edit]

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October 2019[edit]

Hello BerthaPierce. The nature of your edits 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:BerthaPierce. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BerthaPierce|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. Many of your edits are promotional of Richard Wise. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:18, 19 October 2019 (UTC) I'm not sure specifically how to respond to your query. I have read through your references. I am not compensated for my editing. I'm not really understanding how my edits could be monetized they describe events that happened quite long ago. I know Richard Wise and worked with him in Jamaica Plain in the early 70s. I lived in Jamaica Plain for many years and recently attended a launch of his book on the subject of Redlining. I bought one, paid full price.[reply]

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Jamaica Plain, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:BerthaPierce, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BerthaPierce|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. The previous message said "do not edit further until you answer this message". Magnolia677 (talk) 22:46, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am not compensated for my editing. I'm not really understanding how my edits could be monetized they describe events that happened quite long ago. I know Richard Wise and worked with him in Jamaica Plain in the early 70s. I lived in Jamaica Plain for many years and recently attended a launch of his book on the subject of Redlining. I bought one, paid full price.