Emcpherson0

January 2024

Hello Emcpherson0. 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:Emcpherson0. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Emcpherson0|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) 20:04, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I have no idea what any of this means. I am not being paid for anything, just trying to get a link amended Emcpherson0 (talk) 20:13, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

At the Help Desk you said "I will share with the team and see how they'd like to proceed." I take this to mean that you work for Mercury Studios. Is that the case? 331dot (talk) 20:28, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

yes Emcpherson0 (talk) 20:30, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Then that means that the Wikipedia Terms of Use require you to make the formal paid editing disclosure. Please follow the instructions above to make the disclosure on your user page(User:Emcpherson0) 331dot (talk) 20:33, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

attempted to update my page, no idea if it was done correctly. there will be no edits made by me to the American Symphony article either way... Emcpherson0 (talk) 20:42, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I removed the "nowiki" tags you (inadvertently copied I assume) had in place, it now displays properly. Thank you for disclosure- it's necessary even if you aren't going to directly edit the article at issue, because you are here representing the interests of your company. 331dot (talk) 20:44, 18 January 2024 (UTC)