User talk:GatewayMusic

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Gateway Worship, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Gateway Music: Super sorry to have run afoul of any policies. We would like to have the ability to do a few things. I assure you, we have nothing to hide as an organization, if anything we desire to provide more information about ourselves with accuracy. As you may be aware, the Google Knowledge Panel provides certain biographical information, most often sourced by wikipedia. We saw an opportunity to provide more information on a page that contained incomplete and out-of-date details. I read "anyone can edit" to mean that if we edited something that someone had a problem with (e.g. untrue) it could be peer reviewed. If there is a better way to provide this information with the sources (which honestly, I'm not sure how you would get the information we intended to share anywhere else) and have it peer reviewed by another editor prior to publishing we would more than welcome the opportunity to do so. As a wikipedia-dumb individual, could you possibly share the step-by-step process for updating this page with and it's albums with biographical details, artwork, team members, release dates, distribution details, missing releases, associations, etc.) For clarity, I work full-time for Gateway Church d/b/a Gateway Publishing owner of the record label Gateway Music and manager of the artist Gateway Worship.

I'm also more than willing to provide source information to another editor that desires to see this page updated so that they can write what they will about the information provided. GatewayMusic (talk) 21:29, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020
Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is against the username policy.

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