Zoryx007

January 2023

Hello Zoryx007. 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 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:Zoryx007. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Zoryx007|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. 331dot (talk) 12:17, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi @331dot, thank you for pointing out this concern. I am not paid to specifically upload an article about this company, although I admit I have been employed there. It is my personal initiative to create a factual article about the company because I think it deserves its place in Wikipedia amongst the other similar notable companies like Backbase and CR2 (company). I have only pointed neutral facts, mostly historical information to give an objective overview of the topic. Hopefully there's a way to proceed with including the article. Please let me know what could be done. Thank you for your help! Best regards. Zoryx007 (talk) 13:37, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

You seem to have chosen your words carefully; do you currently have any form of paid relationship with the company? You do not have to be specifically paid to or asked to edit to be a paid editor. Even if you are not a paid editor, you have a conflict of interest; please read that page.

Regarding the draft, you haven't yet submitted it for a review, but you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding as to what we do here. Wikipedia is not a place to merely tell about a company and what it does or what it considers to be its history. That is considered promotional here, you don't have to be soliciting or selling something. A Wikipedia article about a company must summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the company, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. "Significant coverage" goes beyond merely describing the activities of the company and goes into detail about its significance, importance, or influence as the source sees it, not as the company itself sees it. Press releases, interviews, annoucements of routine business activities like the raising of capital or release of a product, and brief mentions do not establish notability. Please read Your First Article.

Not every company merits an article here, even within the same field; i.e. competitors meriting articles does not mean this company does too. Please see other stuff exists. It could be that these other articles about companies are also inappropriate and simply have not been addressed yet. As this is a volunteer project where people do what they can when they can, it is possible for inappropriate content to get by us. We can only address what we know about. If you want to use other articles as a model or guide, use those classified as good articles, which have indeed been vetted and evaluated by the community as examples of good work on Wikipedia. 331dot (talk) 13:50, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you again for the detailed clarifications! I understand now that it is not okay for me to be suggesting the article in the first place because I am still employed in the company. Some of the facts I had included could be regarded notable, like the company's participation in globally significant projects with the International Finance Corporation and the Gates Foundation, while other facts, like you said, are just business activities. Zoryx007 (talk) 14:10, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

So since you are currently employed by the company, you must make the required paid editing disclosure; you may follow the instructions in my intial post above. You must do this even if you don't intend to do further work on your draft at this time. If you were interested in editing in other areas, that's a great way to build up experience and knowledge of guidelines so that in the future you could potentially work on a draft. Writing a new article is the most difficult task on Wikipedia even without a conflict of interest. 331dot (talk) 14:19, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Software Group (company)

Hello, Zoryx007. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Software Group".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗plicit 23:39, 25 July 2023 (UTC)