User talk:Jill NJ

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April 2020

Hello Jill NJ. 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 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:Jill NJ. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jill NJ|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 (talk) 12:10, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for highlighting the disclosure requirement, which I have made, although I am not compensated specifically to edit Wikipedia. There is a lot of confusion with regards to Vertex Holdings (which is the brand name the company uses externally), its separate network fund entities and the platform structure. In fact, this version you put up contained factually incorrect details, compared to the initial version before I started making edits.

Since many people turn to Wikipedia, I wanted to provide more factual details about the company history, its structure and investments made. I did also reference quite a few other VC's pages before making the edits to ensure we are not out of line. Happy to discuss more specifically how my edits can be improved i.e. sections that need to be revised to avoid further such occurrences.

Jill NJ (talk) 04:56, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

• As a paid editor you need to request changes on the talk page of the article and refrain from editing directly. Praxidicae (talk) 12:58, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out again. However, all the edits previously made were reasonable, factually correct and had plenty of notable citations. I did take note to remove information from the previous version that could be misconstrued as "spam"/"marketing" as well. While your intent is to highlight to me Wikipedia's guidelines, which I have noted, it does not benefit the readers as you have put outdated and factually incorrect information on the page. As such, I feel it is in the best interest of the community to revert the relevant changes. If there is specific content you object to with the content, feel free to let me know.Jill NJ (talk) 01:06, 5 May 2020 (UTC)