Hello Annick Lodge. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Annick Lodge and Greenville, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Annick Lodge. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Annick Lodge|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. --VViking_TalkEdits 23:11, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Mr Viking, I am not being paid or indirectly compensated for my edits. I am an independant Montgomerie family historian and I am attempting to correct inaccurate information on an ancestral home of the family that is no longer in its possession. Annick Lodge (talk) 23:16, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So you do have a Conflict of Interest, you may want to familiarize yourself with the processes of editing when you have a COI.VViking_TalkEdits 23:20, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry I have looked at your COI link and can see no part that relates to this issue of bias when correcting names and providing references to those names. Could you please enlighten me? Annick Lodge (talk) 23:28, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain why you chose the username you did. —C.Fred (talk) 00:41, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I visited there in 1989 while researching the Poet Robbie Burns historical movements in Ayrshire and it appealed. Annick Lodge (talk) 01:51, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please review WP:Username policy, then. You'll need to choose a new username; this current one causes confusion because it is the name of a property that you are editing the article of. —C.Fred (talk) 02:26, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok no problem, how do I do that? Annick Lodge (talk) 02:29, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ok I have made a request to change. Annick Lodge (talk) 02:45, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. A renamer or clerk has responded to your username change request, but requires clarification before moving forward. Please follow up at your username change request entry as soon as possible. Thank you. Aqurs1 (talk) 05:02, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. thank you. Ancient Timeline (talk) 11:38, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]