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January 2022

Hello Jimnanderson. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Jim Anderson (sound engineer), gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Misplaced Pages'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 Misplaced Pages to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Misplaced Pages 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:Jimnanderson. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jimnanderson|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:47, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I am editing my own information on my page and there is no compensation. You are mistaken. I am hoping to update old information without independent corrections. Thank you for your attention. J. Anderson

You are in a conflict of interest; please take a moment to read the COI guidelines. I strongly recommend you stop editing this article, and make suggestions for changes on the article's talk page. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:36, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Why Can I Not edit or correct my own personal information on my own page? This makes no sense and your changes are incorrect. I should be alb to correct my own page and my own information. I wrote this page in the first place and it needs to be updated.