J. W. Taramini

Conflict of interest and paid disclosure requirements

Hello J. W. Taramini. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Radio 74 Internationale. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.

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, and if it does not, 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, 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:J. W. Taramini. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=J. W. Taramini|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 compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. - Brianhe (talk) 21:12, 3 October 2016 (UTC) Hi Brianhe, Thanks! I used to be paid (until March 2017) by RADIO 74 in Europe but not by RADIO 74 internationale (in USA), even though I was in charge of putting the programs on the air for this network. I didn't reply at the time because I didn't have more time to deal with this. Now I am not paid anymore by any part of RADIO 74 and I maintain that I only tried to bring information for the sake of restoring truth and that I wasn't paid for doing this. I only did it out of empathy, seeing how the founder of the network was grieved to see the misinformation of the article under questioning. I nonetheless have no time for this anymore, so don't worry about that. Thanks for your attention! May God, the Father of His soon coming only-born Son Jesus Christ (coming to reward everyone according to his or her words and deeds), find you and I ready to be molded by Him indeed! Amen. Jonathan Taramini