AGB.Music

November 2023

Hello AGB.Music. 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 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:AGB.Music. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=AGB.Music|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. 331dot (talk) 09:32, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi 331dot!

I am not paid to do any of these edits, I just am really interested in editing discographies for artists. If I'm doing something unconventionally or incorrectly, please let me know!

Regards

AGB.Music AGB.Music (talk) 10:07, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

The reason I asked this question is that you claimed a publicity image of the band as your own personal work and it appears they posed for you. Did you take the image? 331dot (talk) 10:10, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

I did not. I also just realized what I did and why it may look like I'm getting paid...

Really, sorry about that, it was my first time trying to use an image, but I could not find any picture of the group I was talking about, so I resorted to finding a picture of them. Is there any way to fix this? AGB.Music (talk) 10:23, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

You must either immediately request deletion of the image from Commons, or, if the image was released with a copyright compatible with Wikipedia's(alllowing for reuse for any purpose with attribution) change the copyright on Commons to match and properly identifying the photographer. That's uncommon for a publicity image(as it would mean it could be printed on merchandise and sold and the band would not get any money), but possible.

Articles are typically written without the knowledge of the subject, so if you communicate with the band about Wikipedia, that is likely a conflict of interest that should be declared. 331dot (talk) 10:38, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Images are not relevant to the draft approval process, which only considers the text and sources. 331dot (talk) 10:41, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Sentinel (DJ)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 04:05, 30 April 2024 (UTC)