User talk:Emma Bearpark

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Hello, Emma Bearpark, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was David Richards (motorsport), which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Hi MarkH21, I work for David Richards himself in Prodrive, Banbury, UK and he would like his information reinstated please.

If you have an edit to suggest, please do, but please advise why you deleted information that was preexisting on David's page before I edited it yesterday, and that is pertintent to his own career and wishes?

Many thanks for your assistance.

Emma Bearpark - David Richards Office

Emma Bearpark (talk) 11:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MarkH21:. Primefac (talk) 12:13, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac: Thanks! — MarkH₂₁^talk 16:22, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Emma Bearpark: You must carefully read the Wikipedia policies and guidelines, because you are an editor with a (paid) conflict of interest. Please carefully read the the Wikipedia guideline on editing with conflicts of interest, Wikipedia policy on paid contributions, and the Wikipedia policy on verifiability in particular. Some pertinent excerpts:

COI editors are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly, and can propose changes on article talk pages instead.
from the Wikipedia guideline on editing with conflicts of interest.
Editors who are or expect to be compensated for their contributions must disclose their employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any paid contributions. They must do this on their main user page, or on the talk page accompanying any paid contributions, or in edit summaries.
from the Wikipedia policy on paid contributions.
All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution.
from the Wikipedia policy on verifiability.

Your recent edits on the article David Richards (motorsport) violated these policies. Much of the pre-existing content of the David Richards was improperly added, improperly cited, or overly promotional. — MarkH₂₁^talk 16:22, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you but you have deleted content that has been on Wikipedia for years.

The text now does not read in any order and also omits much of David Richards achievements, which are permissible.

Please advise who I can send the draft too to assist me, or I shall go from the list of editors.

We would rather you no longer edited the text.

Many thanks for your attention to date in this matter.

Emma Emma Bearpark (talk) 16:36, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It does not matter how long the content has been on Wikipedia. The policies still apply; material that was added by undisclosed paid editors may be removed and material that does not have proper supporting citations (again, see the verifiability policy and the guide to citations) may be removed from any article.

If you would like to suggest specific changes to any article with which you have a conflict of interest, please refer to the conflict of interest guideline. Follow the steps at the Simple conflict of interest edit request guide on how to propose changes on the talk page (i.e. Talk:David Richards (motorsport)). — MarkH₂₁^talk 16:58, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I also suggest the following step from the policy on paid editing:

Disclosure on user pages may be done using the {{paid}} template as follows: {{paid|employer=name of employer|client=name of client}}. The conflict of interest guideline further advises editors to supply a clearly visible list of their paid contributions on their main user page (see the {{paid}} template documentation for instructions).

Your user page is User:Emma Bearpark. — MarkH₂₁^talk 17:02, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Thanks for your attention and hopefully you can use your time now for your day job, and actual misleading and untruthful uploads, and not dwell on this. Emma Bearpark (talk) 17:35, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]