User:Smallbones/Comcon

This is a page to discuss possible policy proposals to strengthen the current ToU restriction on paid editors. All editors who believe that these restrictions should be strengthen are encouraged to contribute on this page. Other editors may wish to discuss on the talk page.

possible policy proposal

Commercial contributor policy

Commercial contributors are Wikipedia editors who are paid by businesses to write or edit on Wikipedia. This definition includes, but is not limited to, employees, owners, and contractors of the following firms:

• commercial businesses, when they are writing or editing about that business, its competitors, clients, or products.
• public relations firms, when they are writing or editing about a client or related firms or topics.
• commercial editing services, which advertise that they will write, edit, or monitor Wikipedia articles for a fee, or which advertise for Wikipedia editors to write on such topics, when the employees of the editing service are editing on topics related to the service's clients.

Commercial contributors must disclose their employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which they receive, or expect to receive, compensation, or which may otherwise be considered part of their job. They must make that disclosure in both the following ways:

• a statement on their user page, listing every business that has paid them to edit and every article that they've edited for pay after July 1, 2014.
• a statement including their employer, client, and affiliation in the edit summary accompanying any paid contributions.

Commercial contributors may not edit Wikipedia articles, but may comment on talk pages.

Applicable law, or community and Foundation policies and guidelines, such as those addressing conflicts of interest, may further limit paid contributions or require more detailed disclosure. Nothing in this policy supersedes or weakens the restrictions contained in Section 4 of the Terms of Use under the heading Paid contributions disclosure. Rather, the restrictions in this policy are in addition to those in the Terms of Use.