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Hi I tried to change my name, and now I do not have access to my account. Within my account, I attempted to create a page for a music composer Sarah Hutchings. Is this wiki page still under review? How do I log into my account that was created?

   AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 23:31, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sarah Hutchings, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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MurielMary (talk) 11:05, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello RogerSchmidt. 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 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:RogerSchmidt. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RogerSchmidt|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. – Frood (talk) 00:22, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There is no compensation requested or received for any edits made. No direct or indirect financial stake.RogerSchmidt (talk) 03:11, 3 December 2019 (UTC)RogerSchmidt[reply]

Hello RogerSchmidt, thank you for your work on and relating to composer Sarah Hutchings. I noticed a person named Roger Schmidt is attached to the American Vocal Arts, as are Sarah Hutchings and her husband Mitchell Hutchings. (Press release written by R. Schmidt) If this is you, please refrain from further editing, and fully disclose your affiliations.

The rules for not editing subjects one is affiliated with are there for very good reasons. Trying to promote artists to support related commercial interest can lead to serious consequences for the artists, since every article will get scrutinized sooner or later. Inflated claims and marketing adjectives can harm the subject. (For example, there has been a case of an opera singer who got hired to perform a big title role in an important european house based on an artificial online persona created with sock puppets and an article on wikipedia. When the singer failed to meet expectations, editors flocked to the wikipedia article and found and corrected inflated and erroneous claims. But the damage was already done, the singer got horrendous reviews and has since not been hired to sing opera again!)

It is surely better to have a humble article that can grow as the artist grows. With this in mind, I want to encourage you to revisit your edits regarding Sarah Hutchings on other articles, and make sure she is represented accurately. --OrestesLebt (talk) 13:23, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to be revisited. RogerSchmidt (talk) 13:31, 3 December 2019 (UTC)RogerSchmidt[reply]