User talk:Myleslz

December 2019
Hello Myleslz. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Myleslz. 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. MrOllie (talk) 13:48, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Myleslz, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. MrOllie (talk) 14:50, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Response 1
I am not paid to make updates. Please remove the flag from my account — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myleslz (talk • contribs)


 * Please don't split hairs. Do you have an association with Blue Marble Geographics? - MrOllie (talk) 20:30, 27 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello Mr. Ollie, I am not sure what you are referring to by stating "please don't split hairs". This statement implies that I am arguing details that do not matter and are too small, when in fact my original response was simple and to the exact point that you were making. Now, this comment is "splitting hairs"... but none the less, to answer your question, Yes, I do have a direct connection to Blue Marble. I work for this company, so update to the current version of our software being offered. The page stated that the current version of the software was 19.1, but this is incorrect because the current version is 21.0, so I made an update. After making this update, I received a message from you. So please let me know if this post is still breaking Wikipedia rules and if I need to follow your instructions above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myleslz (talk • contribs)


 * Yes, that is a financial conflict of interest as Wikipedia defines it. - MrOllie (talk) 13:31, 30 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Ok, thank you for this information. I will make the suggested edits and have made a separate wiki account for work-related updates.