User talk:Shelleysykes

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Hello, Shelleysykes, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay.

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Disclosure of employment

Hello Shelleysykes. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. 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:Shelleysykes. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Shelleysykes|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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:25, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

I am not being compensated for my edits. I'm just making a page for the production company I work for that's creating pilots for Warner Brothers.

ShelleysykesShelleysykes (talk) 19:48, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Then are you saying that you are writing about the company on your own initiative, and not on behalf of the company as part of your employment? --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 06:14, 14 July 2017 (UTC)