RPnate1

Welcome!

Hello, RPnate1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Radio Paradise, 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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In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

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• Best practices for editors with close associations
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Kj cheetham (talk) 09:35, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome, Kj!

I see that the few edits I've done are still present, which I appreciate. I just wanted to make sure the information on Wikipedia was indeed correct and up to date. As the Wikipedia article is all fact based, I don't think there will be any conflict. I didn't create any large portions and only changed a few facts, updated numbers, and the image to the current logo. Thanks for offering help. I'll definitely reach out if there are any significant changes ever needed. Thanks for the how-to links.

RPnate1 (talk) 18:47, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi RPnate1, thanks for your reply. To confirm though, are you an employee or otherwise associated with Radio Paradise? As noted above, that's something you need to declare, especially if it's something you're being paid for. Thanks. -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:56, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

I am employed by Radio Paradise. I am our Chief Creative Officer. I am in charge of updating listings across the web for ensuring our information and streams links are updated as necessary where listed. While I can see that this can create conflicts for some listings on Wikipedia, I would say that the simple edits that I've made aren't anything that could be considered contentious. I will definitely run any large changes past you in the future to make sure we aren't running afoul of the rules and nature of Wikipedia by posting suggestions to the article as suggested in the best practices for editors with close associations. Thanks again!

I do see that that since we updated our website, there are a few dead links that reference some stats that we no longer list, but at the time of retrieval were (and still are) correct.

RPnate1 (talk) 19:25, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying! I've put a note on Talk:Radio Paradise, and included some standard text about COI below. A key thing really on here is being transparent, which you have been! Minor corrections are generally ok to just do yourself, as long as they are referenced so someone else can verify them. Any sort of promotion will definitely cause issues though. Enjoy your Wikipedia experience though, as you may also want to look at other pages to edit too. -Kj cheetham (talk) 19:36, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, RPnate1. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Radio Paradise, 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, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. The above text is standard boilerplate rather than my own words, but of note is how to request edits on the talk page, though there's often a long queue for such requests to be processed. Kj cheetham (talk) 19:31, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

How do I declare my employer here? I read through the article you sent but it's unclear. I found the suggested tag template- . Where does this get used? Can you help me place it where necessary? Or perhaps confirm my edits and going forward I can just contact you for help making the edits? I want to make sure the edits I did make stay, follow the rules, and ensure that I foillow the rules going forward with a declaration of employment.

Thanks!

RPnate1 (talk) 19:42, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

I see on the Talk page you made the attribution addendum. Thanks for that. I missed that in your earlier message. Thanks for everything! It's fun contributing to one of my all time favorite websites!

RPnate1 (talk) 19:45, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

@RPnate1: The {{paid}} template goes on your userpage (User:RPnate1). I can help you if you aren't sure how to place it there. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 22:02, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Sure! Thanks. Of course, the only time I'm being paid is to edit the Radio Paradise article. No other edits will be paid...

RPnate1 (talk) 22:23, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for being transparent about your connection. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

No problem! I never ever want to run afoul of Wikipedia. It's too important.

RPnate1 (talk) 23:05, 11 July 2023 (UTC)