Matti Olson at Discover Kalama

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January 2026

Hello Matti Olson at Discover Kalama. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Kalama, Washington, 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.

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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:Matti Olson at Discover Kalama. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Matti Olson at Discover Kalama|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) 23:38, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi Magnolia677, I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I am an employee at the Port of Kalama which is a local government agency in Kalama, WA, but my job isn't about advocacy or consulting for the town. With that, I'm not entirely sure where this places me in regards to Terms of Use. My efforts to improve the Kalama, WA Wikipedia page come from personal interest in the town's history, and light historic projects I've been involved in with the local library and County Historical Society. I have been working with community members to better understand the city's origins and I'm working to update digital and physical locations where Kalama's history is reflected. I am new to Wikipedia and wish to not violate any guidelines, so please let me know if I need to adjust any of the work I'm doing. Thank you! Matti Olson at Discover Kalama (talk) 00:17, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

As an employee associated with the subject, it is highly recommended that you yourself do not directly edit the Kalama article. Instead, suggestions of what to edit should be brought up on the article's talk page so that editors without a conflict of interest can review them and make the appropriate changes. The last set of edits did not conform with Wikipedia's requirement to use a neutral point of view and have been removed. SounderBruce 05:10, 29 January 2026 (UTC)