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Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 17:40, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
August 2020 edit
Hello Ldillonschalk. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Cholula Hot Sauce, 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:Ldillonschalk. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ldillonschalk|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. This content is obviously written in company marketingese. It must have a reliable secondary source. Please comply appropriately with disclosure requirements and make requests for content alteration on the article's talk page. Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:43, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello user:Julietdeltalima Thank you for a quick response and help to navigate. 1. Yes - I belong to an agency that has indirect affiliation with the page I'm attempting to edit. Not trying to thwart the rules (I did disclose this in my edits just in case). With the pandemic - there have been a number of questions about Cholula and I suggested we update wikipedia. To help make this verifiable - we changed the website first. 1. Cholula is still manufactured in Mexico. Many were confused about where it is produced. We suggest this for your review. We have tried to remover marketingese. ″For the past 35 years Cholula has been made in Mexico crafted from carefully selected Mexican arbol and piquin peppers and a blend of signature spices. Cholula directly employs over 500+ people in Mexico and is responsible for indirectly creating more jobs for the farmers who grow Cholula’s peppers. [Footnote]" 2. With Sweet Habanero flavors - the scoville range is 1000 - 2000. The source was internal at Cholula 3. Minor update - to match the website -- Cholula "is sold in over 20 countries around the world" 4. Introduction of a new product sample size 0.75 5. Perhaps too optomistic - but trying to update the marketing references - to reflect the partnership with Aaron Sanchez with the past promotion of Cholula INK> "In 2019, Cholula partnered with celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez and launched an online stunt campaign designed by The Fourth Agency under the name “Cholula Ink”. Promoted across social media, the promotion encouraged Cholula fans to get a free Cholula tattoo. " Full disclosure - I am with the Fourth Agency.
I hope this is the right procedure -- I am new to this.
Laurie Ldillonschalk (talk) 17:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Ldillonschalk: Disclosure of your employment with the company (or as a third-party paid representative) must be made plainly visible on your userpage, as described above, using the {{paid}} template.
- You should avoid directly editing the article due to conflict of interest concerns, and instead limit your involvement to making edit requests on the article's talk page.
- Wikipedia has little interest in what a company wants to say about itself. We are more interested in what reliable and independent sources have chosen to publish about it without any inducement. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 08:54, 25 August 2020 (UTC)