Myleslbmg

June 2020

Hello Myleslbmg. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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:Myleslbmg. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Myleslbmg|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. MrOllie (talk) 20:23, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

myleslbmg response: Again, you are making it difficult for my company to update its page correctly by forcing my to cite the source, I am the source as I work for the company. I removed an incorrect piece of information from the Global Mapper page and did not replace it with anything additional, so there is nothing to cite. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myleslbmg (talk • contribs)

Please read the links in the message I posted above. By engaging in paid editing without making the proper disclosures and following the proper procedures, you are in violation of Wikipedia's terms of use. - MrOllie (talk) 20:53, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

myleslbmg response: Ok, I updated the talks page for the page. It should be good now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myleslbmg (talk • contribs)

Did you read the links you were given throughly? You should disclose on your own user page (not just an article talk page), and use the talk page to request edits rather than editing the article directly from now on. - MrOllie (talk) 21:39, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

myleslbmg response: Ok, I made the update to my "user page".