User talk:Alanismadallon

November 2022

Hello Alanismadallon. 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 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:Alanismadallon. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Alanismadallon|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. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 13:09, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Kleuske. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Adam Hicks, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Kleuske (talk) 19:10, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kleuske!

I am currently responsible for Adam Hicks' data on social networks, so I was allowed to make changes to the topics on the Wikipedia page, taking into account that some of the information present is not true to reality such as the fact that he was found guilty of robbery just because of the plea deal. I have no interest in raising any monetary value after editing this page, we just want to expose the truth behind his story. Hicks unfortunately went through a lot of difficult things in the last 10 years and today he just wants to move on with his life and his art, no judgments, just the truth of his past and the courage to face the future.

I hope you are open to understanding the importance of truth.

Thank you! Alanismadallon (talk) 03:24, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You have been warned that paid editing without disclosure violates the Terms of Service. To date, you have not followed the (simple) steps to rectify that. Given the fact you are obviously editing in a professional capacity, it is reasonable to expect you to RTFM. Also being a paid editor does not absolve you from core policies concerning verifiability and biographies of living persons. Kleuske (talk) 11:35, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing.

Hicks cannot "allow" you to do anything on Wikipedia and what Hicks wants has no meaning here. This is an encyclopedia, not social media or some other means of PR. Either follow the rules outlined in WP:Paid or cease editing. Otherwise, you will find yourself blocked (along with any other accounts/anonymous editors who try to "spin" or add promotional/inappropriate content). If there is a valid argument with appropriate supporting sources, make it through WP:edit requests on the relevant talk pages. If there are WP:BLP violations (read this thoroughly as it is critical policy that may be helpful), you can take those to the noticeboard. S0091 (talk) 20:18, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]