User talk:Abennettatnittanycommons
Conflict of interest
[edit]Please be aware that regardless of your username, you need to abide by our conflict of interest guideline. If you have questions, let me know. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 14:57, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Paid editing
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Hello Abennettatnittanycommons. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Abennettatnittanycommons. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Abennettatnittanycommons|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
Paid by
[edit]I am an employee of Nittany Commons. I am not an owner.
Thank you for your paid contribution disclosure.
Regarding your sandbox development article; please understand that Wikipedia is not a means of promotion. Companies can not advertise here. We are also not a business directory. We are an encyclopedia. Our guidelines for inclusion of articles are dependent upon the notability of a subject. Simply that it exists is not enough; we have to have verifiable evidence from secondary sources which supports such notability. Please read through Wikipedia:Notability.
Also, regardless of the notability of a particular subject, we write from a neutral perspective. Such passages as you have written so far in this sandbox article are not neutral, and read somewhat like advertising copy. This is why the conflict of interest guideline is so important. It is possible to write about subjects with which you are closely affiliated, but it is difficult at best.
Please understand; I am not trying to throw walls in front of you. I'm trying to help you. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:47, 31 October 2017 (UTC)