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Happy editing! Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 18:23, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hello ByronPH. 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:ByronPH. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=ByronPH|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. Possibly (talk) 23:11, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
- PLease stop trying to use Wikipedia to promote your company and its employees. Doing so is against our policy fro WP:NOTPROMOTION and also can be seen as undisclosed paid editing. It is fine to ask for an article to be created, but not fine to repeatedly add employees of your company to Wikipedia. Possibly (talk) 23:15, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
What if I am adding information because I own the company associated so I still need that disclosure? ByronPH (talk) 21:07, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
I’m not getting any paid incentive. I just believe that me and my business partner are relevant enough to be mentioned in notable people. ByronPH (talk) 21:08, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
- If you own the company then you do have a conflict of interest and are effectively being compensated. Going forward please make an edit request on the articles' talk pages rather than editing them directly. Please also be aware your company's website is not a reliable source so cannot be used to support content. Wikipedia simply summarizes what independent sources have chosen to publish about a subject. If you have questions or need help, you can ask at the Teahouse. S0091 (talk) 21:55, 2 January 2021 (UTC)