User talk:Emjron

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Emjron. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page John Yorke (producer), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. – DarkGlow • 18:06, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. – DarkGlow • 19:16, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021
As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Emjron, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. --- Possibly &#9742; 02:25, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Possibly and Dark Glow - I received a message from you re. a potential COI for my edits, which I was worried to see was being treated as an 'incident’. I’ve now made sure to update my user page disclosing that I made my edits in consultation with John Yorke, but that my intention was to fill in gaps in his existing bio to give a full, accurate picture, with every update cited with a reputable source (sometimes two!) - but have my contributions not been approved? Can you let me know if the steps I have taken are enough to disclose the COI? To adhere to guidelines, I will also ensure to suggest edits on the talk page in future rather than make any direct edits to the page. Please respond with any feedback or instructions as simply as you can as I’m relatively new to this platform and Wiki’s help pages can sometimes be difficult to understand! Much appreciated, many thanks. Emjron (talk) 21:07, 25 September 2021 (UTC)


 * The disclosure is fine; I fives the template on your user page. We ask COI or paid editors to avoid editing the page directly. You can use the article talk page to request edits. See WP:REQUESTEDIT to see how to do that. Thanks.  --- Possibly &#9742; 23:36, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Incorrect COI information on John Yorke (TV Producer) Wikipedia page
Hi editors, I can see on the Talk section of John Yorke's page there's a disclaimer that I have been paid by John Yorke to make updates to this page. Please note that this is inaccurate - John Yorke has not paid me anything. If you take a look at my userpage it clarifies that I am an employee of an organisation named 'John Yorke Story' - I don't want to release private information here but this is not the same as being paid personally by John Yorke. Please could you correct this? No need to mention the name of the business if this goes against Wiki rules. Many thanks! Emjron (talk) 15:15, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Unpaid employees (e.g. interns) are condsidered to be COI/paid editor. You are literally working for an organization named after the article subject. Please don't waste valuable editor time complaining. --- Possibly &#9742; 16:13, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Possibly, thanks for the info re. unpaid employees, I wasn't aware of that. My intention here was to flag something that could paint an inaccurate picture - ‘Emjron (talk · contribs) has been paid by John Yorke’ - to editors who work hard ensuring accuracy on their pages, and I’d still really appreciate if the clarification could be made to reflect the situation. To say I've 'wasted' your 'valuable time complaining’ is a bit unreasonable, especially as you recognise the distinction: you took the time to edit your response from ‘you are literally working for him.’ to ‘you are literally working for an organization…’ - and that small but important clarification is all I was asking for on the page (if it's possible to do so). But ultimately, if you don’t wish to clarify the disclaimer the way you clarified your response here, there's not much I can do. Have a good evening/day/morning Emjron (talk) 18:24, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * You're working for John Yorke, albeit indirectly? Who cares about some distinction. You are wasting editor time complaining about the characterization of your employment. We are not here to facilitate the work of paid editors. Keep the whining to a minimum please. --- Possibly &#9742; 22:03, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Possibly, I can see the statement's now been corrected which is appreciated. Thanks for the help! Emjron (talk) 23:57, 28 September 2021 (UTC)