RedGuruBoss

Paid editing

Hello RedGuruBoss. 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:RedGuruBoss. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RedGuruBoss|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. Theroadislong (talk) 09:23, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Creating your clients' "pages"

RedGuruBoss, apart from some other warnings that you will no doubt get from people more conversant with the rules than I am, you--and your clients, especially--need to know this. Assuming you do create an article about (not a page for) one of your clients that passes muster in every way so that it actually stays put in Wikipedia, then neither you nor your client will own the article or control it. Anybody can come in and edit it. You and your client might not like the results. But if the edits are relevant and properly supported by independent and reliable sources, there won't be much you or your client can do about it. Uporządnicki (talk) 19:40, 30 November 2022 (UTC)