MarianaBerga

April 2021

Hello MarianaBerga. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Product design, 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:MarianaBerga. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MarianaBerga|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. MrOllie (talk) 14:54, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello Ollie. I do not wish to promote a topic. I thought the topic could include the process of a digital product as well, which it does not. I would gladly include other sources too, I simply included the one I'm more familiarized with and is a book. MarianaBerga (talk) 15:27, 14 April 2021 (UTC)Mariana Berga

Adding mentions of your boss and/or his books is plainly a problem here. - MrOllie (talk) 15:54, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

I understand. However, despite the author of the book, it is still a book that is currently being taught at universities and has been a reference in several dissertations. As I suggested before, more sources could be added to this wiki page, not just the one I mentioned. MarianaBerga (talk) 15:45, 15 April 2021 (UTC)