User talk:Jmsshep

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or ask your question and then place  before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! AU Tiger » talk 18:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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Conflict of interest
Welcome, it appears you may have unwittingly fallen afoul of some of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. The username you've chosen and the article, Shepherd Center, you've created and edited, makes it appear you have a conflict of interest, particularly if, as your username implies you are James Shepherd. Your chosen name could be a violation of username policy and your edits might be seen as solely promotional. You may consider leaving further editing of the article to other Atlanta Wikipedians such as myself; we can make sure the article has reliable sources to properly establish notability. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Best regards, AU Tiger » talk 18:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Paid editing?
Hello Jmsshep. 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 Shepherd Center, 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:Jmsshep. 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. Melcous (talk) 02:58, 10 July 2019 (UTC)