Ozge3535

March 2022

Hello Ozge3535. 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 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:Ozge3535. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ozge3535|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. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 08:51, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

I'm not compensated for any of my edits. I'm just trying to add a logo to the page that has already been created by someone else. Ozge3535 (talk) 09:01, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

"Adding a logo" counts as "editing". If you are working for the company (as you said on the Teahouse) and doing edits on your work time, it counts as paid editing, even if you are not paid specifically for edits to Wikipedia, and even if PR is not part of your job description. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 09:30, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Even if not editing in work hours it is still paid editing if one edits one's employer's article. One receives a reward, broadly construed Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 16:58, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

• You said "we" in one of your comments- only a single person should have access to and be operating this account. 331dot (talk) 09:53, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Ozge3535, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ozge3535|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. 331dot (talk) 10:51, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Currently I'm not making any edits, but I couldn't understand how to add paid editing disclosure as well. Ozge3535 (talk) 17:03, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

You have now been blocked, please follow the instructions below. 331dot (talk) 17:17, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

• Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
• State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
• Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.

Orange Mike | Talk 14:20, 17 March 2022 (UTC)