User talk:MarianaKody
February 2020
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Hello MarianaKody. 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:MarianaKody. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MarianaKody|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. MrOllie (talk) 14:55, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi MrOllie, thank you for your message. I have gone ahead and edited by userpage. I did not mean to mislead anyone intentionally, I am simply new to editing wikipedia pages and wasn't aware of where to declare this. I am employed by the service I have mentioned in my edits but I am making sure not to include any information that is not relevant or could be thought of as sales-y. I just wish to edit the most relevant pages, for instance in 'trends in library usage', use Perlego as an example. I hope this is okay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarianaKody (talk • contribs)
- No, it's not OK - using your employer as an example is considered to be a form of advertising on Wikipedia. - MrOllie (talk) 15:18, 24 February 2020 (UTC)