User talk:WikiWikiSkylar
January 2020
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Hello WikiWikiSkylar. 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:WikiWikiSkylar. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=WikiWikiSkylar|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. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 11:54, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Coffee, thank you for your message. My name is Skylar Langfeldt and I am employed by Icebox Inc in Atlanta, GA, USA. We do jewelry and watches for more than 2,000 artists, athletes and actors all over the world. We use Wikipedia as a source when working on new clients and in the case of many of these up and coming artists or athletes, they do not have a photo on their wiki page at all. Because we take photos of all of our celebrity clients, we have photos we can upload. I am not being financially compensated for uploading these photos. I have been given permission from Icebox ownership to upload photos we have in order to give back to the community we get so much from.
Knowing that I am not being compensated and that I have permission to upload photos to Wikipedia that Icebox owns, is there anything else you need from me?