User talk:Krikrikris
October 2019
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Hello Krikrikris. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to MacKeeper, 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:Krikrikris. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Krikrikris|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. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 17:35, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
@Pythoncoder: hi! Sorry for the impression you got from these edits. I am not paid for this particular edits. However, I am working on MacKeeper. My edits are aimed to update an article with the information about the new release of MacKeeper 4.0 (as the article has information about other previous releases - MacKeeper 1,2 and 3.0). So I can't deny that I am receiving payments from the company on the regular basis, as employee.
If I am not mistaken, it's not banned by Wikipedia to make edits as a company representative. An I hope, it's ok to update product page with the new information (witout advertisement or link building) I tried to make them sound not like an advertisement (no call to install or compliments to the new version). However, if my edits should be updated to be more compliant, please, let me know.
Thank you!
Kris