User talk:Governors Island

Considering the name of your account and your history of contributions here...
...I need to ask you this direct question:

Are you paid for your editing on Wikipedia by the companies you write about, or any companies associated with them?

If so, you need to be aware of this:

The Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use (which is our Terms of Use, since we've never adopted another one), says: '''Paid contributions without disclosure These Terms of Use prohibit engaging in deceptive activities, including misrepresentation of affiliation, impersonation, and fraud. As part of these obligations, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. You must make that disclosure in at least one of the following ways:


 * a statement on your user page,
 * a statement on the talk page accompanying any paid contributions, or
 * a statement in the edit summary accompanying any paid contributions.

'''Applicable law, or community and Foundation policies and guidelines, such as those addressing conflicts of interest, may further limit paid contributions or require more detailed disclosure.A Wikimedia Project community may adopt an alternative paid contribution disclosure policy. If a Project adopts an alternative disclosure policy, you may comply with that policy instead of the requirements in this section when contributing to that Project. An alternative paid contribution policy will only supersede these requirements if it is approved by the relevant Project community and listed in the alternative disclosure policy page.For more information, please read our FAQ on disclosure of paid contributions.We reserve the right to exercise our enforcement discretion with respect to the above terms.''' If you are a paid editor, you must comply with these terms, as well as with our English Wikipedia-specific policy on editing with a conflict of interest. This is not a matter for debate, it's part of the contract you agree to by editing here.

So, again, a direct answer please : do you get paid for editing here?

Even if you're not being paid, there are other policies that you should be aware of:


 * If you are editing with a conflict of interest of any sort, you need to read WP:COI and WP:NPOV, which lay out our rules on editign with a conflict of interest, and on maintaining a neutral point of view


 * Because your user name is in violation of our policy on usernames, please go to WP:CHU and asked for your username to be changed.

Thanks,

BMK (talk) 18:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)