User talk:ParadeOfRoses

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July 2023
Hello ParadeOfRoses. 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 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:ParadeOfRoses. 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. Nardog (talk) 13:15, 11 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry for any misuse, was simply trying to reflect the international artwork currently in use. If the poster is required to match the original country of production, no problem. ParadeOfRoses (talk) 13:20, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for understanding that. But you also said you "work for the distributor". So you must disclose your affiliation on your user page if you intend to edit any article related to your company or its work (and you're strongly advised not to edit such an article directly and instead to propose the edit on the article talk page, for which you may use the Edit Request Wizard). Nardog (talk) 13:38, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Of course, happy to do so for the future. ParadeOfRoses (talk) 13:50, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Changed to an affiliation as employer is not compensating or directing me edit, this came up in the course of other work. ParadeOfRoses (talk) 14:18, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Note Paid-contribution disclosure says, "Users who are compensated for any publicity efforts related to the subject of their Wikipedia contributions are deemed to be paid editors, regardless of whether they were compensated specifically to edit Wikipedia." So you're still likely to be considered a paid contributor, though your current disclosure is probably sufficient, in that as long as you disclose your employer or client, the format doesn't really matter. Nardog (talk) 15:02, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Copy! Thank you again for taking the time to explain. ParadeOfRoses (talk) 15:45, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Please be assured I do not intend to influence the neutrality of the page by providing up-to-date materials in line with other sites (ex. Letterboxd). Are there any options for changing the image or likely no? ParadeOfRoses (talk) 13:30, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Like IMDb, Letterboxd is not a reliable source as it pulls information from TMDB, which is user-generated. And yes, we prefer original theatrical release posters. Nardog (talk) 13:41, 11 July 2023 (UTC)