User talk:Whong69

January 2023
Hello Whong69. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to 4th Impact, 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:Whong69. 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. Graywalls (talk) 05:53, 3 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, I am not receiving or expect to receive any compensation from my edits. I am simply a fan of 4th Impact and was just documenting the fact that they had performed at ASF 2022 and Sofitel Manila's event.  If my wording is not appropriate please advise how I should word my edits so I can post them properly.  Thanks. William Hong. Whong69 (talk) 06:10, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello Graywalls, I have replied to your message at 06:10, 3 January 2023 (UTC) as requested but I still have not heard back from you. I do not see what is wrong with my posts as I made sure that the historical facts were backed up with references available on the Internet.  When may I re-post the historical facts?  Are you a wikipedia admin? Or is there another wikipedia admin that I can discuss if you are too busy? Thanks. Whong69 (talk) 17:01, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello, I am just a contributor. Thanks for your response letting me know you're not getting paid to make edits. As far as being a "fan" do you have any relationship with the article subject you're editing, or direct interaction with them? Graywalls (talk) 23:51, 8 January 2023 (UTC)