User talk:Ponderama

June 2023
Hello Ponderama. 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.

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:Ponderama. 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. David Gerard (talk) 14:12, 13 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note. I am not a paid advocate but a long-time media industry observer and sometime busybody. When using this listing I noticed that it was almost completely lacking references to modern events, that it had failed to grow and evolve and therefore, except for buffs of media history from 20 years ago was becoming less useful as a reference with each passing year. I'm sorry if me and my friend Google have subverted your process and am happy to withdraw my attempt at improving this listing if you require, or otherwise, make any changes you prefer. Kind regards to you. Ponderama (talk) 22:31, 13 June 2023 (UTC)