BilkOldSun

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Hello, Mihail Popșoi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you created or edited was User:Mihail Popșoi/sandbox, which appears to be an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

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Mihail Popșoi, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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August 2019

Hello Mihail Popșoi. 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 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:Mihail Popșoi. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mihail Popșoi|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. TheAwesomeHwyh 22:19, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for your explanations. While I am a secretary working in the administrative office of country's parliament that is financed by public funding, my administrative job by law cannot be and is not affiliated to any political entity/figure, media holding, person, including the person that I am writing about; Furthermore, I haven't made Wikipedia edits of political figures in the past, I am not compensated to make edits on Wikipedia and my job-related tasks do not cover editing Wikipedia articles, including this one. The sole purpose of the article of this political figure is writing in good faith while bringing more coverage for that person for the civic international community in a strictly formal, unbiased, neutral style as required, with all relevant references attached, and then submitted to a draft review to be checked by other editors and to demonstrate that it comes in line with Wikipedia's guidelines and standards. With the above in mind, I didn't consider this to be a compensation and/or a conflict of interest, because as I noted earlier (i) it is prohibited by law to promote any politician's preferential interest, (ii) I'm acting and writing in good faith and strictly for public good, and (iii) I don't expect any compensation whatsoever for this act. Therefore, in such case do I still need to add that template? Thank you in advance. PS, regarding my username, it's a technical mistake, not doing this before, I have accidentally put the article name that I want to write for my username; I have already requested a username change. Mihail Popșoi (talk) 11:13, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Just to be safe, I would add the template. TheAwesomeHwyh 22:51, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

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Hi BilkOldSun! You created a thread called Regarding creating a biography article of a political figure on Wikipedia at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread. Archival by Lowercase sigmabot III, notification delivery by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} (ban this bot) or {{nobots}} (ban all bots) on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 24 August 2019 (UTC)