User talk:Glen Stabers

August 2022
Hello Glen Stabers. 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 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:Glen Stabers. 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. PRAXIDICAE🌈 14:41, 14 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello. I appreciate your message. I am NOT employed by the subject of my edits, nor do I have any financial stake in promoting any topic.  I simply updated biographical and vocational (with references) information about a musician who I know personally and follow. I found his wiki page woefully outdated and simply added items that brought his profile up to date.  Again, while he was appreciative of this, he in no way, shape or form gave me any form of compensation financially or otherwise.  Thank you very much for your kind attention to this, and thanks for looking out for nafarious edits and false information on Wikipedia. Glen Stabers (talk) 19:33, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. PRAXIDICAE🌈 19:22, 19 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that. I made the edits before I sent you my reply to your message.  I apologize for not having replied first.  I don't wish to break ANY Wikipedia rules. Glen Stabers (talk) 19:34, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Please let me know if my earlier response is adequate to the inquiry regarding my appearance as a undisclosed paid editor. Again, I have no financial stake whatsoever in the subject/topic I edited, and I also used sited references for most of my changes.  Thank you. Glen Stabers (talk) 19:39, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
 * What is your connection to Christopher Maloney? You clearly have a conflict of interest which is not disclosed. PRAXIDICAE🌈 19:43, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I already addressed this in my previous response. I know him personally and follow his music and teaching career.  I noticed his page was out of date and needed updating (no professional updates since 2009). Again, for almost all of my biographical updates, I added references from various newspaper articles, magazine articles and web articles.  Therefore, all these changes can be factually verified.  Again, I am NOT employed by the subject, nor do I have any financial stake in promoting him or any topic on Wikipedia. Glen Stabers (talk) 16:06, 20 August 2022 (UTC)