User talk:Commandpitch

Paid editing

Hello Commandpitch. 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:Commandpitch. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Commandpitch|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. ~~~~ Theroadislong (talk) 15:09, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Got it! Posting this on my user page now; I had put the COI disclosure on my company's Talk page. Commandpitch (talk) 15:15, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

COI is now on my user page. I have also noted it on EDC's Talk page, along with the suggested citation updates in order to address link rot. Commandpitch (talk) 15:18, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Account access

Your usage of "we" and "our" in comments can be taken to imply that this account is accessible by multiple people, not just one individual. Is that the case? ~Anachronist (talk) 16:32, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry that was just a reflex - I was referring to the company I work for and my colleagues at said company, but I am one of only two affiliated people who have requested edits to our page. We both have noted COI disclosures and have not edited the page directly. (I'm also the only current active Wiki user - my colleague requested factual corrections to the page years ago). You can see more on the Talk page for Education Development Center. Thanks @Anachronist! Commandpitch (talk) 17:37, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying. ~Anachronist (talk) 21:02, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]