User talk:J. E. Levi

Disclosure of employment
Hello J. E. Levi. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Stone Soup (magazine), and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:J. E. Levi. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:42, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

RESPONSE Thank you for your vigilance on behalf of Wikipedia users, and apologies for the long delayed response. To reply specifically to your request: You are mistaken. I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for any edits to the Stone Soup magazine page. I work occasionally as consultant for the Children's Art Foundation-Stone Soup Inc. (the 501(c)(3) educational charity, registered in the state of California, that publishes the magazine). Most of the work I do for the organisation is unpaid, and time spent updating inaccuracies or outdated information on Wikipedia is specifically not something I have ever been or ever expect to be paid for.

I have added a comment on my affiliation to the organisation on my J E Levi page. J. E. Levi (talk) 16:47, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

 * I think the problem is that a magazine cover is copyrighted so you would have to prove fair use is justified. In some cases it can be.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  17:56, 8 August 2018 (UTC)