User talk:PhnxMktg

Hello, PhnxMktg. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
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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. _signed,Willondon (talk) 18:56, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

April 2022

Hello PhnxMktg. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Phoenix International Holdings, 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:PhnxMktg. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=PhnxMktg|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. Also, does your username stand for Phoenix Marketing or similar? If so, you will need a different username, as shared usernames are not permitted. Sunmist (talk) 13:18, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry but I am confused. I have never made wikipedia changes before. I work for Phoenix and we were wanting to update some of our more notable projects. Are you saying that I have to pay for that? But anyone else can edit our company page as long as they don't work for Phoenix? PhnxMktg (talk) 15:58, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody ever needs to pay to have edits go into Wikipedia. Please read the linked pages on COI carefully. A conflict of interest is the issue, and I'm sure you can understand the tendancy for bias in an article about a company if it is edited by someone with an interest in the company, especially someone paid by the company. This is why Wikipedia requires that the relationship be transparent. An accepted protocol is for an editor with a COI to propose edits on the talk page for the article, so that the community can vet them as an improvement to the encyclopedia, with the encyclopedia's best interests in mind. _signed,Willondon (talk) 16:14, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to page

I have made several edits to this page to highlight new projects we have recently been a part of including these three projects: 2022-Location and Recovery of a downed U.S. Navy F-35C Lightening II aircraft in South China sea 1 2021-Location and Recovery of the fuselage of a downed MH-60S Seahawk Helicopter in Okinawa 2 2019-Deep Ocean Salvage of C-2A Aircraft (location and recovery) in 18,809ft 3 I have included links to articles showing our involvement. I have also put year of occurrence next to the existing projects. Finally I have added our newest location of Stennis Space Center. I work for Phoenix. PhnxMktg (talk) 16:51, 6 April 2022 (UTC)PhnxMktg[reply]