User talk:RapidRail

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Hello, RedStripe06, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Superior Air Charter, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 15:28, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

August 2022
Hello RapidRail. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Superior Air Charter, 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:RapidRail. 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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:22, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I am not being directly or indirectly compensated to edit this page — Preceding unsigned comment added by RapidRail (talk • contribs) 14:06, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Well then, what is your connection to Superior Air Charter? Do you receive or expect to receive, or have you ever received, any financial reward, recompense or emolument, whether directly or indirectly, from that company or its predecessors? Were you not paid to create this image, which you claim to be your own work? What made you choose a username (RedStripe06) that obviously represents the company? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:30, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 * While I work for Superior Air Charter, your question was whether I am compensated, or receive financial award, for any contribution I make to this page, and the answer is no. My goal is to simply insure accurate information is provided. And no; I was not paid to create this image. If you feel there is bias in what I have written, please feel free to address these concerns with edits. However, to make this clear, I am not compensated in any way or form by Superior Air Charter for the edits I make to this page. 2600:1700:501:4DE0:E137:E395:82C8:B4C2 (talk) 13:46, 24 August 2022 (UTC)