User talk:AdNerdBk

May 2023
Hello AdNerdBk. 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:AdNerdBk. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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. SmartSE (talk) 07:35, 23 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi SmartSE, thanks for your note. I'm new to editing Wikipedia and appreciate your feedback so I make sure I'm doing this right! I am not a paid advocate for this page, but I have noted that I can not make updates to pages where I am affiliated unless I disclose. I'm an advertising student studying David and other leaders like him.
 * Can I ask you some questions about the type of edits I am trying to make, to make sure I am not breaking any other rules?
 * The subject has won a lot of awards, and it looks like you took out that section. Is there a better way for me to write this part that makes it clear that it wasn't just his company, but David himself?
 * Can you help me understand what personal information is OK to add? I had put in his family information and also a foundation he started.
 * David also just was named the jury president for the biggest award in the advertising industry. Is there a reason you took that out or was that just part of your overall edits?
 * Thank you for your help! AdNerdBk (talk) 13:14, 24 May 2023 (UTC)