User talk:Kearns jbt

May 2024

Hello Kearns jbt. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to JBT Corporation, and username 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 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 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:Kearns jbt. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kearns jbt|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. Shaws username . talk . 13:39, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for contacting me. If you visit my user page now, you will see that it has been updated to disclose my role. Please let me know if further edits are needed for clarity.

By the way, the change you made to the JBT Corporation page today is not correct. As you can see here, JBT sold it's AeroTech business to Oshkosh Corporation last year. While they were permitted to use the JBT AeroTech name during a transition period, they have since rebranded as Oshkosh AeroTech. Kearns jbt (talk) 15:13, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, and thanks for the correction, I've updated the page and added the sale. Shaws username . talk . 15:25, 24 May 2024 (UTC)