User talk:2600:1700:25D1:6E40:FDD0:D78D:1860:75EF

Paid editing?
Hello 2600:1700:25D1:6E40:FDD0:D78D:1860:75EF. 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.

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Hi! Apologies that I did not abide by the correct editing process and wasn't aware of the requirements to disclose any paid relationship. I am indeed an employee of Global Press but am not being compensated for this action or attempting any sort of paid advocacy - just trying to update an error in our listed address. We are headquartered in Washington, DC, not San Francisco, CA. This information can also be confirmed on the Global Press Institute website. I had hoped explaining that I had a verifiable reason for making the change was helpful without realizing this would raise red flags! I hope that I've submitted this response correctly. Please do let me know what next steps are needed to proceed with the change. Thank you. 2600:1700:25D1:6E40:FDD0:D78D:1860:75EF (talk) 19:17, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I can't find Washington, DC head quarters mentioned on your website? Theroadislong (talk) 19:41, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your response -- address is listed on the contact page here: https://globalpress.co/contact/. Global Press is the umbrella organization to the Global Press Institute, Global Press Journal, and Global Press News and Services. The institute site is the same as the Global Press site. I actually tried to change the title of the page to Global Press instead of Global Press Institute since that is what the page is really describing, but it was uneditable. Please let me know if there's any other info I can provide. 2600:1700:25D1:6E40:FDD0:D78D:1860:75EF (talk) 19:54, 27 October 2020 (UTC)