UshaMicroland

Promotional material

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Mean as custard (talk) 11:23, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Paid editing

Hello UshaMicroland. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Microland, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:UshaMicroland. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=UshaMicroland|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. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:12, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Your question

Hello UshaMicroland, thanks for asking your question on my talk page. Wikipedia's WP:PAID policy construes "paid editing" very broadly, such that basically any employee such as yourself, who makes an edit to the employing company's Wikipedia article, is a paid editor, covered by the policy, and needs to make on their user page the disclosure I describe above. If you have any other questions, please respond here or on my talk page. UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:06, 4 January 2019 (UTC)