User talk:Bradgoehl

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Bradgoehl. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page K240EL‎, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
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 WP:Spam);
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, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Tdl1060 (talk) 05:52, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I do work for Entercom, owner of K240EL. Can you assist with the updated information about the station on the page? I am unsure how to properly request the changes.

August 2020

Hello Bradgoehl. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to K240EL, 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:Bradgoehl. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bradgoehl|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. Please follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure to properly disclose your employer and connections. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 20:47, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Bradgoehl, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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KKBW (FM)

Hello, Bradgoehl. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page KKBW (FM), 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 COI}} template)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting 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. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:33, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bradgoehl. Creating this article yourself like you did is not really in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines for paid/compensated editing; it would've been much better for you to have submitted a draft to Wikipedia:Articles for creation for review. Now, that this in the WP:MAINSPACE, please don't directly edit it anymore, except possibly for the reasons given in WP:COIADVICE. You're free to make suggestions for improvements or otherwise propose changes using WP:EDITREQUESTs at Talk:KKBW (FM). It's important that you understand that while you may own KKBW, you don't own the Wikipedia article about the station; in other words, your position as station owner doesn't give you any final say or editorial control over the article. All content in the article is going to need to be in compliance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and if you try to exert any such control over the article, you're likely going to find yourself having problems. I've asked the members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations to take a look at the article and assess it for Wikipedia:Notability. It's possible that based on that assessment, the article will be draftified so that it can continue to be improved; if that happens, please don't attempt to move the page back to the mainspace yourself because doing will only likely lead to the page being deleted and also could lead to an administrator stepping in and taking action against your account. If you have any questions about any of the above, you can ask them at Wikipedia:Help desk, Wikipedia:Teahouse or even at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest noticeboard. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:45, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of KKBW (FM)

The article KKBW (FM) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This radio station fails to meet the general notability guideline of having significant coverage in reliable sources. It's real (no hoax), but it just signed on today. It is very difficult to get the requisite significant coverage for a new radio station (in say the last 10 years), and I doubt this station will be anything more than a redirect to the state list.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:57, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Brad, please don't take this personally. This is an issue with which we have been wrestling writ large in our topic area. Once upon a time, it used to be common for very new radio stations to get an article the moment they hit the air because we assumed that a broadcast license equated to notability. That no longer holds on this encyclopedia. We have had a major change and a slow-rolling culling of pages that lack the requisite coverage or prospects for such. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 04:03, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]