User talk:DidiJones

Hello DidiJones. 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:DidiJones. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=DidiJones|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. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 04:00, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

I am not paid directly or indirectly compensated for my edits DidiJones (talk) 15:58, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Then what is your association with Klaus D. McDonald-Maier? ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 16:06, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

I work in the same field as Prof McDonald-Maier and was surprised to find that he does not have a wikipedia entry so decided to produce one DidiJones (talk) 21:39, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Do you know him personally? If so, you should make a conflict-of-interest disclosure on your user page. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 23:37, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

I have met him at scientific events in person. Do I need to add this too? DidiJones (talk) 16:00, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

No, that's fine, I just wanted clarification on how you're associated with him. If you both worked in the same university department, that would be considered a conflict of interest. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 22:47, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

👍 DidiJones (talk) 08:29, 13 January 2026 (UTC)