Dane1977

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Hello Corporate Communications Manager. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to GTT Communications, 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.

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Dear Viewmont Viking,

I have done the edits on behalf of my employer GTT Communications Inc. and it is not clear to me where I should state this? Sorry, it is not really clear from the sites where I have been on based on your message. Can you please help?

Best regards,

Corporate Communications Manager Corporate Communications Manager (talk) 14:42, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Dear Viewmont Viking,

One more thing the edits I did were related that the previous ones are no longer correct which means whoever is looking on the Wikipedia site from GTT Communications Inc. is being misled due to that the information is old. Therefore, I hope we can get this sorted out rather sooner than later.

Best regards, Corporate Communications Manager (talk) 15:27, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

You must disclose it on your user page using the {{paid}} template. Seawolf35 (talk) 16:18, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Follow the instructions in the bottom of the welcome notice to correctly disclose your payment to edit. Seawolf35 (talk) 16:20, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello Seawolf35,

I have filled in the template to my best knowledge. But as I must say it is not really user-friendly. Here is a copy of the filled in teamplate: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=Template%3APaid%2Fdoc&action=show-download-screenHowever, I hope this is enough of documentation so that the updates can be published on GTT Comunications, In. Wikipedia page.

Best regards Corporate Communications Manager (talk) 08:42, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello Seawolf and team,

Can you please let me know if the template has been filled in correctly and that the edits I did on GTT Communications, Inc. can be executed and made live as soon as possible please? Thank you Dane1977 (talk) 13:27, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi,

I have fixed the disclosure for you on your user page, let me know if something is wrong with it. Seawolf35 (talk) 14:52, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Great, thank you very much. How can I now get the updates I made to the GTT Communications, Inc. site live? Thank you Dane1977 (talk) 16:24, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

You can make a coi edit request, please read: WP:COIREQ Seawolf35 (talk) 16:26, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Seawolf35, I was able to make the updates. Best regards Dane1977 (talk) 08:10, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

October 2023

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Thank you. Primefac (talk) 09:16, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

• Renamed, unblocked, courtesy ping to Primefac - Cabayi (talk) 10:05, 6 October 2023 (UTC)