User talk:KK for GTCR

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Hello, KK for GTCR, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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October 2021
Hello KK for GTCR. The nature of your edits 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 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:KK for GTCR. 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.  Per your global renaming request, you are engaged in undisclosed paid editing.  Please make no further edits until you have read and heeded WP:PAID.  -- Deep fried okra  ( talk ) 20:08, 4 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi User:Deepfriedokra, I think there's been some confusion. I haven't made ANY edits for any clients and I definitely won't be doing so undisclosed. If you look on my user page, you can see I've disclosed my employer, The Harbinger Group, and that I have a COI with two clients: GTCR and First Command Financial Services. I've not edited either page, or made any requests yet, though I intend to make some requests soon. Once I realized I would not just be making requests for GTCR, I thought it would be best to ask to change my name so that it isn't confusing that my account mentions one client but I'm disclosing a COI with another. My request was to change my account name so it references my employer instead of the one client / Does this help explain things some more? KK for GTCR (talk) 20:58, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * You need to read and heed WP:PAID. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 21:34, 4 October 2021 (UTC)