User talk:MichaelBC1

October 2019

Hello MichaelBC1. 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 Kelly Services, 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:MichaelBC1. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MichaelBC1|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. Template:Z159 MrOllie (talk) 19:32, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi MrOllie, Thanks for reaching out and explaining.

I have been editing the Kelly Services page thus far on behalf of Kelly Services, and now realize that I need to disclose this information on my user page. Thank you for informing me.

I also appreciate you informing me of the process to go through to edit the Kelly Services page rather than directly editing it. So in terms of proposing changes, in a case where I have prewritten elements of a proposed updated version of the wikipedia page with references, would it be best to leave a comment on the Talk page outlining some of the information that I'd be trying to add to the page and seeking approval? I'll make sure to do that now rather than directly editing. MichaelBC1 (talk) 20:00, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi MrOllie,

I wanted to follow up to say I'll make sure I post in the Talk section of the Kelly Services page rather than editing directly. Thanks again for the explanation! I've now read up more on neutral point of view, Wikipedia is not, and will make sure to keep this information in mind moving forward (with regards to the Kelly Services page).

I think it's also worth mentioning that I'm specifically editing the Kelly Services page for Kelly Services, but occasionally I make small edits on miscellaneous pages solely for the sake of grammatical clarity (as my previous minor edits show).