User talk:FirestarterCEO

July 2023
Hello, I'm Framawiki. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to Shayne Graham because they seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Thanks, Framawiki (please notify me when you reply) 11:23, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello FirestarterCEO. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Shayne Graham, 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:FirestarterCEO. 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. Thanks, Framawiki (please notify me when you reply) 11:23, 28 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Better is to avoid editing page of your employer, as by definition you can't do neutral additions to this page. Thanks, Framawiki (please notify me when you reply) 13:12, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm Shayne's publicist. My literal job is to ensure that anything attached to him is current and factual. Elite Winning Solutions is a company he owns and I manage the marketing and PR, so it's my job to make these kinds of edits. FirestarterCEO (talk) 13:15, 28 July 2023 (UTC)