User talk:Elmaestrobert

November 2024

Hello Elmaestrobert. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Centre for European Policy Studies, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Elmaestrobert. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Elmaestrobert|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. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:21, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Cordless Larry, I was not aware and updated my profile accordingly. Thank you! Elmaestrobert (talk) 13:25, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. If you now want to request changes to the article, please follow the instructions at WP:COIREQ. Cordless Larry (talk) 13:39, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, done so. Happy to make more suggestions for a more complete (yet neutral) page. Elmaestrobert (talk) 14:53, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The COI edit request was for the same material as removed from the article earlier today for being promotional. I have declined the COI edit request on the same basis, as there is no place for such promotional material on Wikipedia. Axad12 (talk) 16:19, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]