User talk:Shepard NYC

Hello, Shepard NYC, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm Mathglot and I've volunteered to be your Wikipedia mentor. I'm here for you whenever you need help with Wikipedia. It's great to have you on board to help create this online encyclopedia.

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Once again, welcome to Wikipedia! Mathglot (talk) 00:29, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Shepard NYC. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page New York Public Radio, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the Edit Request Wizard), including links or details of reliable sources that support your suggestions;
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. See further details at this discussion at User talk:Wrontheroof. Mathglot (talk) 00:45, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Moved this here where you can refer to it more easily. To your question: in my opinion, changes of jobs or roles are that are reported in the press are uncontroversial, "basic info" that would be okay for you to add even as someone with a coi, but before you do, a few caveats:

• Do your user page paid COI declaration first;
• If the facts about the changes have been reported in WP:INDEPENDENT sources, use those in preference. If not, an NYPR source can be used, but only if the facts are completely routine and uncontroversial; if there is any funny business or unusual circumstances surrounding the role changes then you should step away;
• When making the edit, use the WP:Edit summary field to briefly summarize your edit as you would for any edit, but then append a mini-disclosure at the end, something like: Disclosure: made uncontroversial edits regarding job roles as paid COI editor. If you use the NYT or other independent source, that's good enough, but if you are forced to source it to NYPR, then say, Disclosure: made uncontroversial edits regarding job roles as paid COI editor, sourced to NYPR as basic facts per [[WP:ABOUTSELF]].

If someone else reverts you, don't revert back, but you may go to Talk:New York Public Radio and discuss with the reverting editor why you think your edit was okay, and you can link this discussion if you want. Hope this helps. Mathglot (talk) 19:19, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks again @Mathglot. Getting the hang of this, and appreciate the patience. I updated my user page with the COI declaration, and have 1 clarifying question now:

Since another user has already reverted changes I made to that box, at this point should I just put it into the talk section for someone else to do? Or do you feel it's appropriate for me to just do a new round of changing it? Shepard NYC (talk) 19:34, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

If already reverted once, definitely stay away; a repeat insertion now would be considered WP:edit warring, which is bad enough for an editor with no connection to the topic who would likely get a slap on the wrist, but for a paid editor would be considered very aggressive and might get you WP:BLOCKed. So, don't do that.

Instead, just raise a discussion on the Talk page about it, mentioning the back story, including your original edit and the revert, and adding your argumentation why you think it should be included in the article. Given the probable low interest in the article and/or Talk page (e.g., this pageviews chart shows pageviews worldwide, and the article has fewer than 30 watchers by Wikipedia editors) you may not get any response. You can seek additional feedback by adding an appropriate notice at other pages where editors gather that are more visible than this one, pointing to your article talk page discussion and directing feedback there. The typical place to go for that is a relevant WP:WikiProject, such as WP:WikiProject Radio. Mathglot (talk) 20:33, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Figured as much on the repeat insertion. But very glad for the clarification.

And sounds good re: raising it on the Talk page. We shall see what comes of it!

And thanks again for all the help and guidance on this. It's been very illuminating and I'm grateful! Shepard NYC (talk) 22:39, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Yvw. Shortcut to the talk page for any needed notification is WT:RADIO. Good luck! Mathglot (talk) 00:15, 6 March 2026 (UTC)