User talk:Mark Cowne of Kruger Cowne Worldwide

March 2021
Hello Kc1957. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Elle Macpherson, 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:Kc1957. 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) 12:35, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

I am am a client director at Kruger Cowne who represent Elle Macpherson, Sir Bob Geldof, Boris Becker, sir Richard Branson and other high profile people. The information for agents was incorrect on Elle’s wiki page and non existent on Sir Bob’s. Both had incorrect website information which I corrected. I will go to my own page and fill in what you have requested in terms of disclosure. Kc1957 (talk) 12:56, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

I am not paid by the person whose page I edited to edit their pages. I am just correcting information. We do represent Elle commercially for her appearances etc. I looked at the “paid” template abd that seems to only relate to people being paid to edit Wiki pages. Please let me know what I need to do and I shall do it immediately. Kc1957 (talk) 13:00, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * If you have any paid relationship with a topic, which includes being their representative, you must make the formal paid editor declaration; you don't have to be specifically paid to edit Wikipedia or for specific edits, as long as doing so could conceivably fall within your job duties. Before you do that, I would suggest creating a more individualistic username, such as "JohnDoe of Kruger Cowne" or "JohnDoe of KC", you don't have to use your real name, but something more individualistic would be helpful.  If you tell what you would like I can change your name.
 * Once your name is changed, you should become familiar with how to make edit requests, due to your conflict of interest. Please understand that Wikipedia articles summarize what independent reliable sources state about a topic. 331dot (talk) 13:04, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your help and guidance. Please do help me and change my name. I have no problem with it being my real name. Mark Cowne of Kruger Cowne Worldwide. I really enjoy Wiki and even worked on an Advertising campaign with Jimmy Wales and Bob Geldof for Maurice Lacroix watches a few years back. I’m sorry I’m so bad at doing this stuff but very grateful for your guidance. Kc1957 (talk) 13:14, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I've changed your username. 331dot (talk) 13:19, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I've reveted the latest change to Bob Geldof, as I'm not sure that changing the website to a management company with the intent of booking Bob for events is appropriate. Willing to discuss on the talk page.  Chaheel Riens (talk) 16:49, 7 March 2021 (UTC)