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Thank you for your edit to ASDA, which I recognise as being made in good faith.
Wikipedia's policy is that, because anybody can add anything, material is only as good as the evidence offered in support of it, so we require significant statements to be supported by citing a reliable source. In the abstract, the citation you added was a good example of doing so correctly. However, in the context of the purchase of ASDA from Walmart, all we need (and what we have) is a citation that supports the statement that these three businesses have bought ASDA from WALMART. If they were themselves important (in Wikipedia terminology, WP:notable), we would just hyperlink their names (as I have done with my first reference to ASDA, above). Their own article would be the place for the kind of citation you added. So in summary, you contributed a good citation but in the wrong place.
Please don't be discouraged by this example, we all learn (and continue to learn) by trying stuff in good faith and being advised when we have misunderstood. Welcome again to Wikipedia. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 12:12, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello NancyBradley. 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.
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Thanks for your message - I don't have any financial stake or interest, I post as I use that site on a daily basis as part of my research.
I consider my latest post to be a good citation and it appears well researched and a good reflection of the history of decision support systems, I would therefore like to re-instate it. I of course don't want to have any conflict with the Wikipedia team who I deeply respect, so please respond if its OK or not to include it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NancyBradley ( talk • contribs)
Hi NancyBradley! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.
As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:
Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.
If you have any questions, we have a friendly space where experienced editors can help you here:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date.
Happy editing! -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 12:12, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your edit to ASDA, which I recognise as being made in good faith.
Wikipedia's policy is that, because anybody can add anything, material is only as good as the evidence offered in support of it, so we require significant statements to be supported by citing a reliable source. In the abstract, the citation you added was a good example of doing so correctly. However, in the context of the purchase of ASDA from Walmart, all we need (and what we have) is a citation that supports the statement that these three businesses have bought ASDA from WALMART. If they were themselves important (in Wikipedia terminology, WP:notable), we would just hyperlink their names (as I have done with my first reference to ASDA, above). Their own article would be the place for the kind of citation you added. So in summary, you contributed a good citation but in the wrong place.
Please don't be discouraged by this example, we all learn (and continue to learn) by trying stuff in good faith and being advised when we have misunderstood. Welcome again to Wikipedia. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 12:12, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello NancyBradley. 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:NancyBradley. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=NancyBradley|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.
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MrOllie (
talk) 17:15, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your message - I don't have any financial stake or interest, I post as I use that site on a daily basis as part of my research.
I consider my latest post to be a good citation and it appears well researched and a good reflection of the history of decision support systems, I would therefore like to re-instate it. I of course don't want to have any conflict with the Wikipedia team who I deeply respect, so please respond if its OK or not to include it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NancyBradley ( talk • contribs)