Losangelesmuse

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Paid editing

Hello Losangelesmuse. Your edits look as if you are being paid . Paid promotion is an especially egregious type of conflict of interest (COI)
Paid articles should be submitted through the articles for creation process. If you are receiving or expect to receive money for your edits, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post the disclosure on your user page at User:Losangelesmuse. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Losangelesmuse|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. If you are being paid, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 04:13, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Hey there, I am not being paid for my edits. Losangelesmuse (talk) 05:29, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Very well. Please do understand that "paid" here includes being instructed to make edits as part of your job or employment, even for no additional pay. It also includes doing so as part of an internship, even if ther is no direct payment. If you aren't being paid, in what sense is My client Brian Gardner your client, please? DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 12:17, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

I see what you are saying, but I am not an intern, and am not receiving any $. He was a client in 2012, but we do not exchange money at all. I am just trying to help him out, because he does not know how to fix his own Wiki page. As you can see, I too have no idea how Wikipedia works. I guess I should have said, my "friend"? I would not consider him my employer, will not be invoicing him for these edits, and do not expect to be paid for it in the future.

Hope that makes sense. Let me know if I should still fill out the employer template thing, considering I was paid a long time ago as a web developer. Losangelesmuse (talk) 16:58, 21 August 2017 (UTC)