User talk:Catiedistefano

August 2022

Hello Catiedistefano. 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:Catiedistefano. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Catiedistefano|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. PRAXIDICAE🌈 20:46, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I am not paid for this, but I have worked in the gambling industry 11 years so I thought I would share what I have learned :) I am an independent consultant. Catiedistefano (talk) 20:56, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Considering your position, which is obvious since you're using a real name, I would strongly advise you cease editing any of these articles directly and request changes on the talk page because as it stands now you're already likely to be blocked for excessive spamming. PRAXIDICAE🌈 21:00, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I don't really understand what I did wrong to be flagged for spamming? I read up on the usernames and it said that I could use my real name if I was aware of the risks, which I am. I figured using my real name would also prove that I have the experience to collect information and update sources? Will I be able to edit pages after being verified some way, or will I always need to request edits through the talk page because I'm using my real name? Catiedistefano (talk) 21:04, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote above that "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.". I have confirmed I am not a paid advocate and since I am using my real name, you can also see that I don't work with these company pages that I have edited. I do however have useful information for Wikipedia and I know how to find the reliable sources for the gambling industry.

Basically you're saying that I can only request edits through Talk on gambling pages because I know them too well, but I can edit any other page that is available for other topics, so long my name cannot be connected to that particular topic? Catiedistefano (talk) 21:25, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'm saying you need to use the talk page because your job is literally to promote the websites you're adding per your title as "director of community marketing"... PRAXIDICAE🌈 21:27, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In my role of community marketing, I am aware of all news surrounding the gambling community. That includes information such as that Tropicana online gambling is no longer available and has been taken over by Caesars, Entain has received the largest fine to date for failures in protecting players and the CEO from both Betsson and Gaming Innovation Group has been replaced. None of that information was anywhere available on Wikipedia, some of it is years old news. And it's certainly not any promotion, don't you think? But it's historical facts that are necessary for each company. Catiedistefano (talk) 21:33, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for deleting all my edits. I've been a contributor a long time to wikipedia and I figured I'd go further and spend my Friday night volunteering my expertise, but all to waste. You want me to edit articles about puppies or flowers instead, stuff I know zero about? I don't know how Wikipedia will survive if you don't want credible editors, and I won't use Wikipedia as a source again now that I know you don't even want basic facts on here. No spamming, no promotions, just pure facts and respect. Wishing you more positivity in your life. Catiedistefano (talk) 22:01, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]