User talk:John Laker

May 2023
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Stakker Humanoid. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Alexf(talk) 19:08, 19 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Alex, can you please let me know specifically which edit was considered to be promotional?
 * Many thanks
 * John Laker John Laker (talk) 08:20, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, John Laker. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Stakker Humanoid, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
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 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. OutsideNormality (talk) 21:08, 19 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi
 * I was the producer of the record, as such I am able to give an accurate and truthful, first hand account of its creation, which I have done.
 * My involvement is well documented on the page and in the credits. I don't believe there is a COI, but either way I am not hiding my identity nor my involvement.
 * I assume the link that was considered commercial was to Discogs. That is an excellent relational database which contains a wealth of historical information about personell involved in the creation of publicly available music. It does sell records, presumably to fund its development. Wikipedia also sells merchandise and printed material to fund its operation.
 * I wonder if Discogs could be considered for its key historical information rather than its record sales.
 * Kind regards
 * John Laker John Laker (talk) 09:24, 1 June 2023 (UTC)