User talk:DrinksTrustAndrew

January 2023
Hello DrinksTrustAndrew. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to The Benevolent; The Drinks Industry Charity, 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:DrinksTrustAndrew. 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. --   LuK3      (Talk)   15:41, 20 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello. With regards to your message following the edits made to the page The Benevolent, The Drinks Industry Charity. I am a paid employee of the The Drinks Trust. The Drinks Trust is the new name for the The Benevolent, when i say 'new' the name changed in February 2020. We are registered with the UK Charity Commission, charity no 1023376  The edits were designed to simply reflect this, ie to correct the name and any other details that have lapsed/become redundant. Many thanks, Andrew DrinksTrustAndrew (talk) 17:17, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi. I replied to your message on January 20th but have had no response from you. Would you let me know please whether it is ok to update the Wikipedia page for the charity I work for? Many thanks, Andrew. DrinksTrustAndrew (talk) 14:34, 1 February 2023 (UTC)