User talk:Amy at Atticus

June 2022
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 * Hi Diannaa
 * Thanks very much for your guidance - I really appreciate it. I'm sorry if there's been an issue here - please could you tell me which areas are a problem re copyright? The only addition we've made for Lord Puttnam (who has approved all of this content) was the Atticus Education which is from our website (www.davidputtnam.com). Is this what you refer to, and if so, shall I just add a citation of the website to justify the addition?
 * Best wishes
 * Amy 77.98.53.152 (talk) 12:22, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello Amy at Atticus. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to David Puttnam, 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:Amy at Atticus. 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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:40, 21 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello there,
 * Thanks very much for your message - I'm not a paid advocate. Apologies if I've filled this in incorrectly. I'm a wikipedia beginner working in Lord Puttnam's office and updating his profile as necessary. We used to use the parliamentary wiki pages and had no issues when he was a still a member of the House, however, since retiring last October, I can no longer use this link. His page will obviously need regular updating as his career and profile has shifted from the House of Lords to Atticus Education together with his relocation from the UK to Ireland. If these edits are not correct or need changing, please could you let me know which page or where I should put these edits so that I don't cause further problems?
 * Many thanks
 * Amy Castle 77.98.53.152 (talk) 13:57, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Amy, if you are an employee of Puttnam or any of his businesses or activities, you are considered a paid editor for our purposes; this applies even if you hold an unpaid post such as trainee or intern. That means that you should strictly follow our advice for editors in your position, starting with an appropriate paid-editor disclosure on your user-page, User:Amy at Atticus, as explained in my earlier message. Thereafter you may request edits to pages relating to Puttnam by posting on the talk-page, adding a request edit template when you do so (and of course supplying an independent reliable source for any proposed change), but should not make any edit to the text of the actual article(s). You are free to edit other Wikipedia pages just like any other editor. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:44, 21 June 2022 (UTC)