User talk:Lilydale11

July 2019
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "TheJohnstonCollection", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it appears to represent an organization. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:47, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

August 2019
Your addition to The Johnston Collection has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information.  Grey joy talk 06:10, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

The Johnson Collection
Please stop adding promotional material and puffery to The Johnston Collection. You may not be aware of this, but Wikipedia is not a part of your organization;'s communications department. Adding a whole section of the grants you have received is irrelevant for a global audience. We also avoid phrases like "award-winning"; see WP:Puffery. I will leave you a message below on how to handle your obvious COI. I would strongly suggest you not edit this article directly again; use talk page requests instead. If you are being paid by TJC as `an employee, you also need to declare this paid editing. See below.--- Possibly (talk) 04:17, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021
Hello Lilydale11. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to The Johnston Collection, 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:Lilydale11. 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. --- Possibly (talk) 04:18, 28 March 2021 (UTC)