Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup

April 2023

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Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 17:14, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to LNP Media Group, 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:Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup|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. Uhai (talk) 06:15, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi Uhai! I am an employee of LNP Media Group, but I am not compensated at all for updating the Wikipedia page. This is my first time making a Wikipedia page edit, so I wasn't aware of the rules, but thanks for letting me know about them. What should be our next steps? My only concern is that the page didn't accurately reflect the current state of the company, in many ways (for example, the pages referenced publications that we no longer produce, and a motto we no longer use, and a printing facility we no longer use. So my goal is just to make it accurate and up to date. What should I do now? 73.187.24.4 (talk) 12:17, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

As an employee of the company, you're still considered a paid editor, unless your employment at this company is as an unpaid volunteer. Per the conflict of interest and paid editing guidelines, I strongly recommend you limit your contributions to articles relating to this company to edit requests. See Wikipedia:Edit requests for more information. Please also follow the instructions in the message above to add the paid template to your user page.

It's very important that you remain logged into your account when you edit. I noticed your response on this page along with your edits to LNP (newspaper) were done while logged out, which can introduce confusion for other editors when they come across your edits. Uhai (talk) 23:01, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi Uhai - Sorry, I honestly thought I was logged in. This is the first time I've made a Wikipedia page edit. I will try to do an edit request now. Wish me luck! 73.187.24.4 (talk) 20:15, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Uhai - I did what you suggested and put my edits onto the Talk page for LNP Media Group. Nothing has happened. The old, outdated, incorrect information is still on the page. This is super frustrating. What can I do to get these edits made? I fail to see the value in enforcing that people who are employees can't make edits if the result is that flat-out wrong information is still on the page. Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup (talk) 20:13, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello, your edit request wasn't tagged with the {{edit request}} template, so it wasn't in the backlog for review. I've gone ahead and fixed it for you. Note that it still may take some time before it is reviewed.

Looking over your request, I'd recommend in the meantime that you try to add some sources to support statements that you would like added, such as "The LNP Editorial board no longer endorses political candidates as-of 2017." Sources that are secondary and independent (i.e. not from LNP itself) would be ideal. Regrettably, I'm not well-versed in handling edit requests so I'll let someone more experienced handle yours; I just wanted to give you some advice derived from my cursory look.

I do completely understand your frustration. Unfortunately, with Wikipedia there's no deadline, so things can take a while to happen. However, your patience, honesty, and adherence to the policies are greatly appreciated, if by no one else then by me. Uhai (talk) 05:46, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Uhai! I don't know how to tag things with an edit request, but I'll try to figure that out, since there are also errors on our other page for the LNP newspaper. I'll work on that now.

I appreciate your timely and thoughtful communications to me. With regard to external sources for the endorsements, unfortunately they do not exist. The decision to stop endorsing candidates was not something that the Editorial board announced, and it was not noticed or covered by any other media company. The only 'source' is that if you googled something like "LNP Editorial board presidential endorsement 2020" you'd find nothing, because there was no endorsement, but that's not a citable source. I don't think there's any way to solve for this issue and I hope it doesn't pose a problem. Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup (talk) 13:08, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

If there's no reliable source for a given statement, then it simply cannot be added to the article. But the endorsements section could indeed probably be removed since its only source is the newspaper itself. If there exists a secondary and independent source that covers the newspaper's history of endorsements and its political leanings (or lack thereof), then it may be appropriate for there to be such a section. Uhai (talk) 05:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Sreynolds-lnpmediagroup. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page LNP Media Group, 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);
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• 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. Thank you. Uhai (talk) 06:15, 7 April 2023 (UTC)