User talk:98.207.153.187

April 2019

Hello 98.207.153.187. 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:98.207.153.187. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=98.207.153.187|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) 01:19, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

Dear Mr. Ollie: Firstly, I have no association or compensation at all with any of the organization listed in the changes (University of North Carolina or Nanosys). Secondly, the information provided is useful for any reader trying to understand the research on anode materials, especially on early research on silicon nanowires for electrochemical cells, which is the topic of the section. Thirdly, the sources provided are peer reviewed journals and the US PTO. There is no mention of any commercial entity which I am affiliated to. Therefore, I respectfully request that you put back the additions that have been deleted or I plan to pursue an escalation procedure for illegal censorship. To make it clear, I have zero compensation for providing the information and my interest is to make sure that the readers have proper knowledge of the early work on this scientific topic and that the researchers have proper scientific recognition for their pioneering work. Mabspl (talk) 06:00, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

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