June 2019 edit

  Hello, I'm Creffett. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to TMP Worldwide Advertising and Communications have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. creffett (talk) 17:16, 5 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Managing a conflict of interest edit

  Hello, Rmjpatt4. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page TMP Worldwide Advertising and Communications, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI 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 (you can use 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 which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. creffett (talk) 17:16, 5 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to TMP Worldwide Advertising and Communications. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:25, 5 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

June 2019 edit

 

Hello Rmjpatt4. 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 TMP Worldwide Advertising and Communications, 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 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:Rmjpatt4. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Rmjpatt4|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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:27, 5 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

 

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to User talk:ToBeFree, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Rmjpatt4, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Rmjpatt4|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please do so before making any other edits to Wikipedia. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:50, 5 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

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