User talk:Holdenluntzgallery

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Hello Holdenluntzgallery. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Horst P. Horst, 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:Holdenluntzgallery. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Holdenluntzgallery|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. --VViking_TalkEdits 18:54, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Holdenluntzgallery, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Holdenluntzgallery|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. --VViking_TalkEdits 18:58, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I am new to wikipedia and was just trying to update pages with relevant information. We don't even have all of these photographs available for purchase. Our gallery emphasizes educational content which was the content I was trying to share. Holdenluntzgallery (talk) 19:11, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The articles linked are educational articles. There is no mention of sale, price, etc. They really are only intended to be educational and informative. I'm embarrassed that they were received at solicitous. Please let me know if I should remove them. Holdenluntzgallery (talk) 19:18, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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