User talk:AmyDGI

January 2022
Hello AmyDGI. 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:AmyDGI. 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. MrOllie (talk) 18:49, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi MrOllie - I have never edited something in Wikipedia before so my apologies if I have done something out of order. I had no ill intentions. If you review the edits I made, you will see that I updated some links in the citations. I am the owner of the website these citations referenced and the links here were dead. I updated them to the current URLs so that interested parties could see the material that was being referenced. I am not being paid to make these changes, nor do I see how it could be a conflict of interest since I am the owner of the cited material and only updating with current URLs. If there was another way I was supposed to make those updates, I again apologize. I don not intend to make any further edits to Wikipedia unless I again find that my website or material is being reference incorrectly or with dead links. Please advise when these references and their citations will be returned to the Data Governance entry. Thanks for your work with Wikipedia - it's a great resource! AmyDGI (talk) 20:54, 26 January 2022 (UTC)