User talk:81.109.76.90

COI/NPOV concerns

Hi, anonymous user!

It seems that you only have edited one article ever - the one about what3words - and it seems that your edits are to paint the company under a more positive light. This is reason to believe you might have a conflict of interest (COI).

May I remind you about relevant Wikipedia's policies on the matter: Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest and Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view. Consider creating an account as well, see Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account? .

I have refrained from editing the article since I consider that I have a COI as well (due to one of the items in the "parody" section) - so I kindly ask that you, at the very least, consider whether you also have a COI, and refrain from editing the article if so. -- Iván Sánchez^(talk) 13:20, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

I agree with the neutrality concerns raised by others

“Anonymous User 81.109.76.90” appears to be sanitising the What3words article of any possible criticism (eg removing discussion and links to articles where emergency services have criticised W3W and replacing with content where they have praised). Moreover, their edits are poorly described (eg edit described as moving content into a different section is actually an edit which removes a material amount of content, which happens to be negative about What3words). What is stated here is a summary, and one should review the user’s full edit history. 86.132.158.122 (talk) 19:00, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

September 2022

Hello 81.109.76.90. 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:81.109.76.90. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=81.109.76.90|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. SmartSE (talk) 11:14, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

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