User talk:Bryan Chapell

Hello Bryan Chapell. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Bryan Chapell, 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:Bryan Chapell. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bryan Chapell|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) 15:50, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your guidance. I have published the mandatory disclosure on my User Page, noting my roles with Unlimited Grace Media and the PCA. I am the sole operator of this account and have been authorized by Dr. Chapell to assist with factual accuracy on this page.Bryan Chapell (talk) 02:12, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

In addition to my disclosure above, I would like to propose a correction to the final paragraph to ensure it aligns with Wikipedia's Biographies of Living Persons (WP:BLP) policy regarding neutrality and verifiability. The current description of 'false claim' implies a calculated intent that is not supported by the official record. According to the byFaith (official PCA magazine) article from May 2025, during a video podcast, Chapell made a mis-statement regarding a list of individuals. He later issued a formal apology in byFaith magazine. He subsequently retired as Stated Clerk, which the PCA Administrative Committee accepted effective June 2025. Source: Statement from Stated Clerk Bryan Chapell - byFaith Thank you for your assistance in ensuring the biography remains precise and fair. ~~~~ Bryan Chapell (talk) 14:40, 4 February 2026 (UTC)