User talk:Ourstar

File permission problem with File:Elton Mayo photographed by his friend Pitt Rivers.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Elton Mayo photographed by his friend Pitt Rivers.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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Considering your contributions are select to a few subjects, I must ask you to see WP:Paid, especially the latter as it's a legal policy. SwisterTwister talk 21:59, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Ourstar. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page BookBlast, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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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. Theroadislong (talk) 09:37, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Queens (novel), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 09:48, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to remove maintenance templates without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at Draft:Georgia de Chamberet, you may be blocked from editing. This may be considered disruptive editing. Theroadislong (talk) 11:22, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, 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:Ourstar, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ourstar|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia.

You still have not responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. Theroadislong (talk) 11:36, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning if you make any further edits without responding to the inquiry you received regarding undisclosed paid editing.

Ourstar (talk) 15:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

As far as I can see, you have for years done nothing in this project but promote a company called Bookblast and various people associated with it. Here's an example from 2014. It seems pretty clear that you have some connection to that business.

Under our Terms of Use, if you are receiving, or expect to receive, monetary or other benefits or considerations from editing Wikipedia as a representative of an organization (as an employee or contractor; as an employee or contractor of a firm hired by that organization for public-relations purposes; as owner, officer or other stakeholder; or by having some other form of close financial relationship with a topic you wish to write about), then you must disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Ourstar. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ourstar|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please say so, here on this page. Otherwise, please make the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit any other page until you have answered this message – your editing privileges will be suspended if you do so. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:33, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please clarify your connection to the editors NiciWest and Knight2kb3, who appear to share your interest in the same topics. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:36, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

hello, apologies for making unreferenced edits to entries. It was in a bid to rectify inaccuracies and misinformation on various pages. I will desist from editing while reading up rules and guidelines in greater detail. I am not paid by anyone to edit entries on wikipedia! I had not understood that facts in an entry need to be backed up by a range of sources. The facts are correct about george elton mayo and the george pitt rivers photo of him which is in the elton mayo archive at harvard business school, it is possible the widow of julian pitt rivers' would know about the copyright The author of Queens brought writers like thomas bernhard and juan goytisolo to english language readers however this needs remains to be verified. Sincerely, (Ourstar (talk) 15:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC))[reply]

You have not replied to the assertion that "It seems pretty clear that you have some connection to that business." Theroadislong (talk) 15:22, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In response to Justlettersandnumbers Theroadislong I am not paid by bookblast or any other company to edit entries. I see that it is a term sometimes used by the indie book community. If the biographical entry in question does not conform to Wikipedia standards then it should be deleted. I respect your opinions as seasoned editors for Wikipedia, but it is clear that this conversation is going nowhere and runs counter to the constructive collective wisdom that Wikipedia claims to promote. I shall have nothing more to do with Wilkipedia from now on and am signing off from this now. Sincerely, (Ourstar

In response to (talk) (talk) I am not paid by bookblast or any other company to edit entries. I see that it is a term sometimes used by the indie book community. If the biographical entry in question does not conform to Wikipedia standards then it should be deleted. I respect your opinions as seasoned editors for Wikipedia, but it is clear that this conversation is going nowhere and runs counter to the constructive collective wisdom that Wikipedia claims to promote. I shall have nothing more to do with Wikipedia and am signing off from this now. Sincerely, (Ourstar

Thank you for disclosing. Theroadislong (talk) 13:38, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]