Hari Teah

January 2024

Hello Hari Teah. 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.

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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:Hari Teah. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Hari Teah|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) 10:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi,

I am not being directly or indirectly compensated and for these edits and do not have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting this topic. Hari Teah (talk) 09:35, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

What is your association with him? Another editor at roughly the same time as you claimed to represent Mr. Williams, which seems to be a big coincidence- is there some sort of coordinated effort here? 331dot (talk) 09:36, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

I reverted your latest edit to the Sam Williams article here [1] for the reasons stated. If you keep editing like that, an admin may block you. What's your source for his birthplace and date of birth? And why did you remove the BBC and Billboard sources? Read WP:BLP and WP:EW before you edit again. A WP-article about Sam Williams is supposed to be a summary of WP:RS about, but independent of, Sam Williams. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:18, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Hari Teah, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia. Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 10:26, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Sam Williams (record producer)

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Sam Williams (record producer), may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 04:32, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Hari Teah. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Sam Williams (record producer), 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 {{edit COI}} 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. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 10:20, 27 January 2024 (UTC)