User talk:FidelityMJ

You need to properly disclose your conflict of interest on your user page
Hello FidelityMJ. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:FidelityMJ. 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. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:02, 12 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Ok, I see that you were trying to disclose your COI in your edit requests (so I've unblocked you), but you still need to do so on your user page (see above instructions). Ian.thomson (talk) 21:45, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, Ian.thomson. I've made the appropriate edits to my user page, disclosing my COI.

Hi, Ian.thomson, I've added the following COI to my user page:my name is Meghan. I want to disclose that I am employed by Fidelity Investments, so I have a financial conflict of interest. I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I have familiarized myself with the rules surrounding this circumstance and will always state my conflict of interest, never edit articles directly where I have a COI, and post only to Talk pages. I have good intentions and want to make fair, neutral edits. Thank you.