User talk:TheAlmanac301

April 2021

Hello TheAlmanac301. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Freddy Wexler, 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:TheAlmanac301. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=TheAlmanac301|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. Graywalls (talk) 09:20, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

@Graywalls: Hello. I have never been paid by or expected payment from Freddy Wexler or anyone on his behalf. I found his story interesting and decided to keep his Wikipedia up to date, because I noticed it often wasn’t. Case in point: the discography on this page is currently missing Wexler's most recent release, 2 Much by Justin Bieber from Justice, which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 200. As Wexler is a well known songwriter and creator, I thought it would be a service to keep this page up-to-date. I’ve since taken the time to learn more about Wikipedia’s guidelines and am confident I will be more helpful in how I execute future edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheAlmanac301 (talk • contribs)

Do you have any personal and/or professional relationship with Freddy Wexler or Sony/ATV? If then, what is the nature of this relationship? You uploaded the (now removed) photo at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freddy_Wexler_on_Beats_1.jpg which you identified as your own work, that is identical shot to the one one Sony/ATV Press Release, and it was a higher resolution photo than the one in press release. The press release does not attribute the photo to your screen name and it was not CC-SA-BY released, hence the removal for copyright violation from commons. Graywalls (talk) 20:42, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

@Graywalls: Hi Graywalls. I do not have a personal and/or professional relationship with Freddy Wexler or Sony/ATV. When I uploaded this photo, I did not mean to represent that it was my own work. I have tried to locate the original source of the photo but cannot find it. As I mentioned previously, I have since take the time to familiarize myself with Wikipedia's guidelines, and this will not happen again.