User talk:SnowsportsJames

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May 2023

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Glencoe Ski area. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. 10mmsocket (talk) 15:29, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

This is not original research or novel synthesis. I have cited a reliable source. Stop your extreme negativity please. SnowsportsJames (talk) 15:31, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

What was your reliable source? Google Maps? How does that support all the personal knowledge that you added into the article? Please don't add it again without providing reliable verifiable sources. See "The Teahouse" above if you need any help or take a look at the other links above including The Five Pillars and guide for citing sources. Hope that helps (said with an air of positivity) 10mmsocket (talk) 15:35, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Look mate I really don't know why you have taken it upon yourself to engage in an edit war. Feel free to have a look at the following sources of information and you let me know if any of the information I have uploaded contradicts them:

https://www.glencoescotland.com/see-do/mountain-biking/

https://www.crerarhotels.com/blog/archive/cycling-trails-in-glencoe/

https://www.trailforks.com/region/glencoe-1454444506/?activitytype=1&z=13.2&lat=56.62272&lon=-4.83369

https://www.glencoemountain.co.uk/mountain-biking/

I say again; all I am trying to do is make the page more up to date and complete. I cannot see how the above is not in line with what you are describing. If you would like to suggest alternative sources, I am all ears. Just deleting the information wholesale serves no purpose - you have left the info about the fire up with no inline citation, so I struggle to see the reasoning. SnowsportsJames (talk) 15:43, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Glencoe Ski area shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. 10mmsocket (talk) 15:35, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did at Aonach Mòr, you may be blocked from editing. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. Idontknowwhattouseasmyusername300 (talk) 16:03, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Is this automated? I am simply trying to cite the changes. How else would you cite the number of trails on a ski area but by reference to the ski area's website? SnowsportsJames (talk) 16:05, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Aonach Mòr. Idontknowwhattouseasmyusername300 (talk) 16:11, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Is this an actual person? I put a source in and you said it was not allowed. Could you provide actual specific feedback which would be more helpful in having updates match your desired format? SnowsportsJames (talk) 16:13, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

They are indeed an actual person. However, your additions were in good faith, and they should not have used the rollback tool on them without an explanation (@Idontknowwhattouseasmyusername300, be very careful about that). 199.208.172.35 (talk) 16:42, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, The antivandal tool does rollback automatically. The rollback was unintentional.Idontknowwhattouseasmyusername300 (talk) 17:50, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello SnowsportsJames. 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:SnowsportsJames. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=SnowsportsJames|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. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 16:45, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, it's my first edit beyond small bits and pieces. Just wanted to give it an update with more description about the biking. Not trying to offend anyone. TBH the whole thing is massively complicated and not simple for someone new to this. Let me know if my user page now complies please. SnowsportsJames (talk) 16:49, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the disclosure. If you're writing about your employer, you are considered a paid editor, regardless of whether they are paying you specifically to edit Wikipedia.

You have a conflict of interest. Therefore, you should absolutely refrain from making any substantive changes to the article. All editors with a conflict of interest must propose such changes on the article talk page. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:54, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

OK, sorry all new to me - I genuinely thought anyone could alter an article to update with information. I'm just going to give up - it's just a complete minefield of technicality and I just don't have time to dedicate to this level of complexity in my free time to just update it to include mountain biking. SnowsportsJames (talk) 16:56, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello, @SnowsportsJames:, I would just like to say that when I first started editing I was hving these same sort of problems you are having. But as I learned more, editing became quite simple, and even fun. Just be patient and remember that it doesn't have to be super complicated. There are no deadlines on Wikipedia, so please don't give up yet. If you any questions, please ask on your talk page (here) or at my talk page. I will happy to assist you! Here is an article I wrote that might be helpful for you when studying it because if you pay attention, you will see what the tone of an article about a business should be like. Note that it is not promotional https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dewar%27s_Candy_Shop Please, I am happy to help and don't give up yet. The Capitalist forever (talk) 17:33, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks - first positive person I've encountered on this platform. I appreciate you saying you will help, but I just don't want to expose myself to the culture of this website for the sake of just updating an article. It's totally stressed me out - I've had more fun getting a tooth pulled out. SnowsportsJames (talk) 17:59, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

@SnowsportsJames:, No worries, totally understand. If you change your mind just let me know, because Wikipedia is a great place once you get know it. Have a great rest of your day! (Note:I just got the link fixed on my above message so you can read it now.)The Capitalist forever (talk) 18:05, 19 May 2023 (UTC)