User talk:Lyrical42

June 2023
Hello, Lyrical42. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * 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);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. Lightoil (talk) 03:27, 8 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Lightoil. I'm happily following all the COI parameters and ensuring that any suggestion I make is neutral--objectively factual in an encyclopedic manner--and is well-sources with independent links from news outlets to document the edits I'm suggesting.  I've disclosed my COI upfront and have posted about my COIs on my user page, spotlighting the various pages where I may potentially have a conflict, so everything is open and clear.  My goal here is to work with a Wikipedia editor to update pages that are either woefully out of date, are incomplete or that are objectively incorrect. Lyrical42 (talk) 11:25, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Since you are an employee of the institute for justice (see Talk:Institute_for_Justice), you are subject to WP:PAID, not just WP:COI. Per that policy, you are also obliged to declare your employer and client. I would recommend using Template:Paid on your user page, as advised by WP:PAID. Actualcpscm (talk) 09:27, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Is this the case even if I make no edits myself?
 * If that’s the case, I have no problem with that disclosure.
 * But my goal here is NOT to make the edits myself (because I do have a COI and have freely disclosed those conflicts), but, rather, to suggest specific edits to Wikipedia editors who would then decide if my suggestions are valid, and will make them accordingly, adhering to Wikipedia’s standards for neutrality (not promotional info) and ensuring there is a cited with a link to an independent source.) 89.220.176.5 (talk) 11:15, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * User:Actualcpscm, I’ve now added your suggested PAID TEMPLATE. Thank you for the guidance.
 * Would you be available to review some of the suggested edits that are needed?
 * The Institute for Justice page is incomplete and woefully out of date. Lyrical42 (talk) 11:29, 11 June 2023 (UTC)