User talk:Thefrankagency
Advertising agency?
[edit]Is this account connected with the identically named advertising agency? If so, please review our policies related to conflicts of interest and paid editing. In particular, note that editing on behalf of paying clients without explicitly declaring that relationship is not permitted. You'll also need to change your account's name to ensure that it's not viewed as promotional or shared between multiple editors. ElKevbo (talk) 19:13, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
[edit]There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 00:31, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation policies on paid editing
[edit]Hello Thefrankagency. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Thefrankagency. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Thefrankagency|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 04:08, 22 September 2018 (UTC)