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January 2024
Hello LizAbramsohn. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Sterling Sound, 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.

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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:LizAbramsohn. 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. signed,Rosguill talk 14:19, 29 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Rosguill,
 * Thank you for moving the Sterling Sound page to drafts. While it seems like a conflict of interest, I'm not being paid to create or update any Wiki pages. I do work for the company, but my only goal with this page is to have a Wikipedia page to inform people of the history of the company. Sterling is over 50 years old, and within the music industry the name is synonymous with Abbey Road Studios, Electric Lady Studios, The Village Studio, etc. With 14 engineers and over 90 Grammy nominations, Sterling Sound is a notable studio with much historic value.
 * The photos I uploaded are my own - I believe I followed the rules there. I DO have a question though - There are some historical photos of the build outs for some of the studios. The historical ones are not my photos, but I believe they would be useful for the page. How can I best go about sharing those on the page (if I can get the page approved)? Should I find the owner? Is it a risk? I see George Marino's page has many photos but those are probably owned by his family, or whoever updates his page.
 * It would also be great to have some of the past and present engineers' pages linked (Ted Jensen, Tom Coyne, Chris Gehringer, Joe LaPorta, etc). Right now, if someone clicks "Sterling Sound" on another Wikipedia page it redirects to the late George Marino's Wiki page. I'm wondering if that's even more confusing than a simple page stating what Sterling Sound is and a couple pics. We still get phone calls from people who google Sterling Sound and think that George is alive and still working here.
 * I'm educating myself on best Wiki practices and how this all works. I understand it's not meant to be a marketing tool, so I will work to ensure I don't include any info that is bias. I'll keep working on this draft, but any tips or recommendations you have are greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
 * Best,
 * Liz Liz Abramsohn (talk) 15:13, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * If you are an employee of the company, that is still considered conflict-of-interest editing and you should review the relevant guidelines, which instruct you to only submit new articles through the articles for creation process. signed,Rosguill talk 15:15, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Got it - thank you for clarifying. So, I don't think anyone outside Sterling would ever proactively create a page for the studio. This is all interesting. I'll leave this be for now and continue learning more about the guidelines. Thanks again! 38.142.212.186 (talk) 17:46, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It qualifies as undisclosed WP:PAID editing, which violates the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use. I strongly use you to not edit that article. Kleuske (talk) 15:18, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Sterling Sound moved to draftspace
Thanks for your contributions to Sterling Sound. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability, it is promotional and reads like an advertisement and you may have a possible Conflict of Interest. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. signed,Rosguill talk 14:20, 29 January 2024 (UTC)