User talk:Guidingtheway99

Your username
Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs, and I noticed that your username, " The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs ", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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 * Hello!
 * Can I change my username to NATSAPadmin, please? The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (talk) 17:26, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * No, that's your role (which someday will be performed by someone else) not you. Cabayi (talk) 20:18, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh oops, okay I understand now. Can I please change it to Guidingtheway99? The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (talk) 16:02, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
 * renamed. TenWhile6 (talk | SWMT) 18:24, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. 1keyhole1keyhole (talk) 08:38, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

April 2024
Hello Guidingtheway99. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs, 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 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 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:Guidingtheway99. 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. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:54, 26 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello, thank you for this message. I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I am just updating what information I found further on their public website and other public journals. Thanks. Guidingtheway99 (talk) 19:39, 11 June 2024 (UTC)