User talk:Cyberclue

February 2024

Hello Cyberclue. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to ELearnSecurity, 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 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 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:Cyberclue. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Cyberclue|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. 331dot (talk) 08:54, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to ELearnSecurity, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Cyberclue, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Cyberclue|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. 331dot (talk) 09:09, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am not being compensated to promote INE whatsoever. I just found that the info on the page is extremely old and wanted to update it. Cyberclue (talk) 09:11, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So you don't work for this company? 331dot (talk) 09:15, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

no, I don't work for INE Cyberclue (talk) 09:16, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. It's actually questionable if the company merits an article at all, and the text there is currently written as an advertisement. That a company is renamed or purchased does not necessarily mean that the article should immediately be renamed- policies like WP:COMMONNAME need to be weighed. 331dot (talk) 09:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Got it.

Thanks for the heads-up. Cyberclue (talk) 09:27, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]