User talk:Whitestag1933

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Hello, Whitestag1933, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was White Stag Leadership Development Program, 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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April 2024
Hello Whitestag1933. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Camp Pico Blanco, 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 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 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:Whitestag1933. 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. ''Also seen the prior warning. There's been no other edits made besides from WhiteStag and editing pattern suggests you maybe editing for White Stag.'' Graywalls (talk) 21:59, 3 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I am not being compensated in any way for the edits I made to Camp Pico Blanco. The edit information that was made are true facts and were intended to update readers of the article of that fact. Can you please help me understand the proper way of doing this so that it does not appear I am being compensated. Whitestag1933 (talk) 03:08, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I respectfully request the edits are put back. Several pieces of information are no longer valid. Whitestag1933 (talk) 03:11, 4 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Compensated or not, are you affiliated with the organization and are the edits being made on behalf of the organization or at the behest of the organization? Also, the user name appears to suggest it is a WP:ROLEACCOUNT belonging to the organization rather than a specific individual. It seems to mean White Stag with its establishment year of 1933. The fact that it contains the organization's name, and it was used for no purpose but White Stag over the several years the account has been around indicates it is so. Graywalls (talk) 03:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * It is my account and does not belong to the organization. I am affiliated with the organization for the organization, but they did not ask me to do updates. How do proper updates get made and by whom? Whitestag1933 (talk) 03:20, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Given your affiliation and potential conflict-of-interest, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Edit_COI/Instructions is the path forward. Your request for information to be added should include secondary sources, such as news articles rather than announcements from your organization or affiliated groups. Graywalls (talk) 03:30, 4 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Also, even if you're not getting paid on an itemized basis to work on Wikipedia article, if you're making this edit as part of your position at your employer, whoever that maybe, salaried or hourly, it is considered a paid editing. Graywalls (talk) 06:52, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Your account has been blocked from editing because your username gives the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website. '''Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy, which is summarized here.'''

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Thank you. WaggersTALK  12:19, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I would like to remind you that public relations editing or other conflict-of-interest activities remain forbidden should you choose to come back as a new account or change name as suggested above and continue to participate. This includes creating articles related to Whitestag, polishing up the presentation of Whitestag related articles or working Whitestag.org or their affiliates as external links or references into other articles. Editing activities on White Stag related contents should be disclosed, such as via edit request template mentioned earlier and specifically saying something like "this is Blue Lion the publicist from White Stag requesting changes A and B" Thank you, Graywalls (talk) 22:26, 4 April 2024 (UTC)