User talk:JermynStreetEditor

January 2020
Hello JermynStreetEditor. 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 Jermyn Street Theatre, 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 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:JermynStreetEditor. 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.  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  21:05, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

With apologies and thank you for pointing out this error in protocol so quickly. I have now provided the required disclosure, and hope I may restore the edits, which are all routine updates to the charity's page similar to those made on other institutions' pages, in the public interest. JermynStreetEditor (talk) 21:41, 9 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Upcoming productions aren't an appropriate subject for a Wikipedia article in the first instance; this is an encyclopedia, not a "public interest" message board. I highly advise that you ask how to proceed at WP:TEAHOUSE; like everyone here, I'm a volunteer and I'm not able to give you a comprehensive answer. The Teahouse editors will respond to you much more quickly and helpfully. Thanks. -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  21:44, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice; it makes sense to limit the information to past events. JermynStreetEditor (talk) 21:49, 9 January 2020 (UTC)