User talk:Luke GSB

Your attempted edits to Benjamin Wey[edit]

Hello, Luke GSB. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Benjamin Wey, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Paid editing encompasses employees of Benjamin Wey or his companies and employees of any PR or reputation management companies of which he or his companies are clients. Voceditenore (talk) 09:38, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What is your relation, if any, to the user LN*Evans? I strongly suggest you read this page before editing further.Voceditenore (talk) 09:38, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Your Attempted Edits to Benjamin Wey[edit]

I have copied your comments on my talk page (and my previous responses) here to your talk page, and prefer you keep the conversation here. Voceditenore (talk) 09:21, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Voceditenore, Thank you for taking your time to review my attempted edits. I really appreciate your professional opinion. With regards for your concern of COI with Benjamin Wey and/or LN*Evans, I have no external relationships with the people, places or things written about in the page Benjamin Wey. I do not employ or am employed by or have any affiliation with Benjamin Wey. As a first time editor, I am passionate about making positive contributions to the Wikipedia community. With no past experience, I believe I followed the guidelines closely and accurately. My attempted edits are factual and sourced. As white collar crime is one of my many interests, I followed the case carefully. Additional sources are available if you think it is needed. Thank you again. Looking forward to hear back from you--Luke GSB (talk) 05:50, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that long-term experience with that article and the numerous single purpose accounts who have edited it or attempted to edit it once the page was protected leads me to believe otherwise. I note that despite your professed "passionate" desire to contribute to Wikipedia and interest in white-collar crime, you have made no other contributions here (before or since) despite numerous articles on that subject, many of which are tagged as requiring improvement. Voceditenore (talk) 15:05, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Voceditenore, thanks for explaining the complicated history of this article. It now makes more sense understanding how these single purpose accounts work in the case of this article. I followed this case closely as it was fascinating to me. I will follow your advice and edit some of the easier articles to raise my knowledge of the platform and the working politics behind the editing and reviewing policies. What other advice can you give me on becoming a better contributor? In the future, I'd like to be able to edit this pages and other that have protected status.--Luke GSB (talk) 21:54, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The complicated history of Benjamin Wey would have been immediately apparent to you, had you taken the time to read Talk:Benjamin Wey. I find it odd that your ultimate goal in editing Wikipedia is to be able to edit protected pages, and particularly that one. Wikipedia has well over 5 million articles, of which less than .05% are protected under the pending changes policy like Benjamin Wey. In addition, there are thousands subjects that still require articles to be written.

In any case, permission to edit/review articles protected by pending changes is granted by administrators and requires a considerable track record of successful editing and demonstration of a thorough understanding of key policies: WP:BLP, WP:RELY, WP:COPYVIO, WP:NPOV, WP:VANDAL, WP:COI, etc.. If you are particularly interested in a specific subject area, you might consider joining a relevant WikiProject, where you can get advice and editing suggestions from experienced editors in that area. On a more general level, The Teahouse is a space for new or inexperienced editors to seek advice. Voceditenore (talk) 09:21, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]