User talk:BigComm78726

August 2022

Hello BigComm78726. 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:BigComm78726. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BigComm78726|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) 20:27, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for flagging this to me. I'm new at this and did not realize. I do work for BigCommerce, whose page I am trying to update. I am happy to disclose that but am having a hard time understanding where to disclose it. BigComm78726 (talk) 20:35, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like I need to insert the Connected Contributor language on my talk page. Where do I enter this?

The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation" with respect to any paid contribution; see WP:PAID. For advice about reviewing paid contributions, see WP:COIRESPONSE.

BigComm78726 (talk · contribs) has been paid by BigCommerce.

BigComm78726 (talk) 20:43, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure#Disclosing_external_accounts_on_Wikipedia carefully. That template is for article talk pages. You user page should have the {{paid}} template. In fact, read all of the paid and COI guidelines carefully - particularly the bits about how to request edits on article talk pages, since you should not be editing the article directly yourself. MrOllie (talk) 20:59, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Thank you BigComm78726 (talk) 21:24, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]