Scheffti

July 2024

Hello Scheffti. The nature of your edits 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Scheffti. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Scheffti|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. AntiDionysius (talk) 14:33, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Dear AntiDionysius, I am not direclty or indirectly compensated for my edits. The edits I made are sharing information for the public and are non commercial. LTS Ventures is a social company, running a village bank platform at cost, but without profit. It is true, that I am hired by LTS Ventures, though I am not compensated to do the edit on Wikipedia. Please advise, what I should do, since I am also new to edit on wikipedia. Thank you for your guidance. Tim Scheffti (talk) 14:53, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

If you're employed by LTS Ventures, you are viewed as being indirectly compensated for your edits and your editing counts as "paid editing". If you read above, you'll note it says Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. The fact that the organisation is operating this project without making profit does not make a difference.

Please read the paid editing guidelines and follow the disclosure requirements.

I would, moreover, just advise not writing at all about your employer. You're very unlikely to be able to be neutral about it, and your edits are quite likely to end up being reverted, so it's not really a good use of your time. You can contribute to Wikipedia in many other ways. Thanks. AntiDionysius (talk) 14:58, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Ok. I added employer to my user profile.

at the same time village banking is an important method to reduce poverty in least developed countries. We need to promote village banking - it is helping millions of people Scheffti (talk) 15:46, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks.

I'm sure you're right about village banking. But Wikipedia is not the place to promote it or anything else. AntiDionysius (talk) 15:55, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, 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:Scheffti, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Scheffti|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. --VViking_TalkEdits 14:34, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Added to my profile Scheffti (talk) 15:46, 12 July 2024 (UTC)