User talk:Twalter.fmg

November 2023

Hello Twalter.fmg. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Allied Motion Technologies, 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:Twalter.fmg. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Twalter.fmg|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. – robertsky (talk) 07:12, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Robertsky -

My company, Freelance Marketing Group, Inc. (https://fmgconsultants.com/), is on retainer for Allient (formerly Allied Motion) to handle all of their digital marketing and website design. We are not being paid specifically for updating their Wikipedia page. Mel Busch at Allient is the one that reached out to use and asked us to make the updates for them - it is just part of our job to keep their online profiles updated for them.

So, to me this means I don't have any financial stake in this - we're just doing what our client asks. If we told them we couldn't update their Wikipedia page for them, it would make no difference on whether we get our monthly retainer or not. They would have just asked us to find someone that can do it and then they would have paid that person / company.

Thoughts??

Thanks

Trevor Walter

907-414-0375 Twalter.fmg (talk) 18:04, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Twalter.fmg: As long as you are paid for work rendered in general, regardless of whether it is for Wikipedia specifically or not, it can be seen as a conflict of interest at the very least. Thanks for the disclosure still. Hopefully, you will contribute more to Wikipedia.

On the topic of renaming the article, I have created redirects on the new names, pointing towards the current article, as navigational aids for anyone searching for the company by the new name. – robertsky (talk) 01:06, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Robertsky, I appreciate the assistance!! So, should I still add some sort of a disclosure and if so, how would you recommend I word it and where do I do that? Twalter.fmg (talk) 22:29, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Robertsky Can you remind me what it will take or is it in the process of moving the url and title from Allied Motion Technologies to Allient, Inc.

I know there was discussion that there may not have been enough collaborating content to suggest this is a legit move. I can assure you that it is - even so far as to change the Nasdaq Stock Symbol from AMOT to ALNT.A

Thanks so much for your time - I really appreciate it!!

Trev Twalter.fmg (talk) 22:40, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is WP:COIDISCLOSE, which outlines the instructions for disclosing one's relation on the article's talk page.

WP:NAMECHANGE would be applicable here. What is required are reliable secondary sources reporting the company as such. I suggest giving it 3-6 months, do a check on the news outlets to see if they have reported the company with its new name. Just in case, press releases (or mere republishing of the press releases) from the company are not secondary sources (conversely, press releases from other unrelated companies maybe perceived as secondary, just not as reliable as news outlets). – robertsky (talk) 15:53, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

COI Disclosure

The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation" with respect to any paid contribution; see WP:PAID. For advice about reviewing paid contributions, see WP:COIRESPONSE.

Twalter.fmg (talk · contribs) has been paid by Allient Inc. [1]

Twalter.fmg (talk) 16:29, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]