User talk:BGirST: Difference between revisions
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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are '''<u>required</u> by the [[wmf:TOU#paid-contrib-disclosure|Wikimedia Terms of Use]] to disclose your employer, client and affiliation.''' You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at [[User:BGirST]]. The template {{tl|Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{tlc|paid|2=user=BGirST|3=employer=<var>InsertName</var>|4=client=<var>InsertName</var>}}. 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. <!-- Template:Uw-paid1 --> – [[User:Njd-de|NJD-DE]] ([[User talk:Njd-de|talk]]) 19:16, 9 January 2022 (UTC) |
Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are '''<u>required</u> by the [[wmf:TOU#paid-contrib-disclosure|Wikimedia Terms of Use]] to disclose your employer, client and affiliation.''' You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at [[User:BGirST]]. The template {{tl|Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{tlc|paid|2=user=BGirST|3=employer=<var>InsertName</var>|4=client=<var>InsertName</var>}}. 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. <!-- Template:Uw-paid1 --> – [[User:Njd-de|NJD-DE]] ([[User talk:Njd-de|talk]]) 19:16, 9 January 2022 (UTC) |
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In response, I am not being paid anything, as you can probably tell I am not very experienced with Wikipedia. While I do own stock in this company, no one is paying me and updating a picture of their HQ is not promoting anything but where the Headquarters are. I am part of the discussion on Stocktwits, where other users suggested that someone should update their employees to reflect 98 employees, not 8. Where is your disclosure that you are not a short seller? https://stocktwits.com/symbol/VXRT |
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Revision as of 19:37, 9 January 2022
January 2022
Hello BGirST. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Vaxart, 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:BGirST. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BGirST|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. – NJD-DE (talk) 19:16, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
In response, I am not being paid anything, as you can probably tell I am not very experienced with Wikipedia. While I do own stock in this company, no one is paying me and updating a picture of their HQ is not promoting anything but where the Headquarters are. I am part of the discussion on Stocktwits, where other users suggested that someone should update their employees to reflect 98 employees, not 8. Where is your disclosure that you are not a short seller? https://stocktwits.com/symbol/VXRT