User talk:Wholebraindigital

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Wholebraindigital", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 21:44, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the notification. I acknowledge the concerns raised about my username and potential conflict of interest. I have initiated the process to change my username and have disclosed my paid editing on my user page. Please let me know if there are additional steps I need to take to comply with Wikipedia's policies. --Wholebraindigital (talk) 22:05, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

December 2024

Hello Wholebraindigital. The nature of your edits 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Wholebraindigital. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Wholebraindigital|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. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 21:45, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message regarding the username and paid editing concerns. I have already initiated the process to address my username. Regarding the second issue, I want to confirm that [state your position—e.g., whether you are a paid editor or not]. If applicable, I have disclosed my paid editing on my user page as required. Please let me know if further steps are needed. --Wholebraindigital (talk) 22:12, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]