CarltonLangton

May 2023

Hello CarltonLangton. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Unify (company), 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:CarltonLangton. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=CarltonLangton|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. Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 14:10, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

I am an employee of Atos IT Services Ltd. I have added this information onto my User page as requested. CarltonLangton (talk) 18:11, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Writing about your employer or its subsidiary companies automatically makes a paid editor, as far as Wikipedia's policies are concerned. You do not have be to paid specifically to edit Wikipedia for this policy to apply. Nevertheless, you made the proper disclosure, so there is no problem. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:12, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

August 2023

As you are an employee of the company, you are a paid editor for the purposes of wikipedia related to that company. Please do not directly edit affected articles as you did at Unify (company). Instead, you should propose changes on the talk page so they can be reviewed by a neutral editor. You can most simply do this using the Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard. Thank you Melcous (talk) 13:31, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

In your statement you state that I must submit any requests for content updates relating to the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unify_(company) and I must use the Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard. As I am employee of Atos.

However if I go to 'Request Wizard' it states that I must ‘Disclose payment’. I have been asked to update the company website by my manager, however there is no additional payment being made for me to update the Wikipedia web page for the company.

I have already disclosed that I am employed by Atos.

When I try and access the page to ‘Create edit request’ the page states that I can “You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason:”

So how can I raise a request for the web page to be updated!

Thank you. CarltonLangton (talk) 15:42, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Atos Unify composite visual entity.png

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