RyeCedar

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November 2020

Hello RyeCedar. 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 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:RyeCedar. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RyeCedar|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. HᴇʀᴘᴇᴛᴏGᴇɴᴇꜱɪꜱ (talk) 05:56, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

@Herpetogenesis: Sorry between the holiday and work, I'm just seeing this. I'm not receiving compensation for my edits. I worked with Tony many many years ago training as a journalist but I'm not being paid for anything. Do I need to disclose this on his page? Or only if I were paid? Thank you, RyeCedar (talk) 20:53, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Clint Stinchcomb, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:RyeCedar, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RyeCedar|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. scope_creep^Talk 13:19, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

@Scope creep: Hello, please see my message above. Thank you, RyeCedar (talk) 20:55, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Clint Stinchcomb for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Clint Stinchcomb is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clint Stinchcomb until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. scope_creep^Talk 13:20, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Tony Park - Conflict of Interest

Hi RyeCedar It appears you have a conflict of interest. Please don't edit the Tony Park again. scope_creep^Talk 22:13, 9 December 2020 (UTC)