KMuturi

February 2018

Hello, I'm L293D. I noticed that in this edit to Davis & Shirtliff, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. L293D (☎ • ✎) 12:58, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

Hello, KMuturi. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:11, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Your additions to Davis & Shirtliff

Greetings. It is apparent that you have a direct conflict of interest in adding material to this article about this company. Please understand; Wikipedia is not a business directory in which you can advertise. We are an encyclopedia. We create articles about notable companies and write them in a neutral tone (see WP:NEUTRAL) largely using secondary sources. Further, we accept only content that is available under a free license or in the public domain, except in very limited circumstances (see WP:NFCC). Also be aware that we have a very strict policy regarding paid editing. I am placing a standard warning template to that effect here below. Undisclosed paid editing will result in your account being blocked. I strongly, adamantly, urge you to work WITH Wikipedia and not against our practices and policies here. I am happy to answer any questions you may have. However, proceeding as you have is not the way forward. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 13:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Paid editing warning

Hello KMuturi. 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 Davis & Shirtliff, and that 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:KMuturi. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=KMuturi|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:28, 2 March 2018 (UTC)