User talk:Johndonohue3

January 2024
Hello Johndonohue3. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Amerant Bank, 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:Johndonohue3. 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. 331dot (talk) 14:30, 5 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I am not being compensated for my edits to this page. Johndonohue3 (talk) 14:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * What is your association with the bank? 331dot (talk) 14:36, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * To clarify, I don't need to know specifically- generally is fine, but you didn't pick the bank at random to edit about. 331dot (talk) 14:39, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I currently bank with these guys, and most of the information on the page was correct except for the few things that I edited. Johndonohue3 (talk) 14:49, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I have verified via off-wiki evidence that you are attempting to mislead us, and that your connection to the bank is far closer than you are trying to claim here. This is deeply inappropriate. If your next edit does not fully and completely disclose your conflict of interest, as required by WP:COI, I will block you. Please consider this your last opportunity to be open and honest with us. --Yamla (talk) 15:06, 5 January 2024 (UTC)