User talk:Grednam

Paid editing
Hello Grednam. 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:Grednam. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 19:12, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Charles Nathan (Songwriter) - Page needs to be in place.
Dear Wiki Community,

I'm sorry for all concerned that the effort to publish the biography for Charles Nathan (Songwriter) has stalled. Charles has a Christmas song that is freshly released, and I am the label for that release. My effort to market the release is an all-consuming pursuit. If this is a conflict of interest, I will accept that.

Even though I contracted an agent to submit to Wikipedia, I was the writer of the bio, and being Charles's son, I am a primary source. If COI disqualifies me as the bio writer for Charles, then I need someone to take the project up. The idea is to provide the public a source of reference when the question arises, was Charles Nathan (Songwriter) a noteworthy person?

It is a bit of a "situation" that I need the community's help with since the current activity with one of his songs is likely to raise questions. A typical advertisement for "I Want a Doll" goes as follows: "one of the best Christmas songs ever to hit the market." Charles's Wikipedia submission picture is in the process of being seen in videos that will appear on several highly-trafficked platforms. Charles is in an EIN press release that has a sizable reach. We have also released the same PR through AAJ, distributed on 12/06/2021.

Your assistance in providing this public service will be highly appreciated. Thank you.