User talk:Jane Ferguson Valx
Paid editing
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Hello Marketing RobotLAB. 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:Marketing RobotLAB. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Marketing RobotLAB|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. Theroadislong (talk) 20:51, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, the edits I have made are not meant to be compensated by any employer. I'm not being pay for the minor edits I did recently. Marketing RobotLAB (talk) 21:00, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
- Your choice of user name would indicate that you have a clear conflict of interest, which you are required to disclose on your user page. Connected users should submit suggestions on the talk page with the {{request edit}} template and a reliable source. Theroadislong (talk) 21:06, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
- Understood! Thank you. Marketing RobotLAB (talk) 21:13, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
- You will also be doing zero "marketing" of RobotLAB here as this is an encyclopaedia. Theroadislong (talk) 21:18, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
- Understood! Thank you. Marketing RobotLAB (talk) 21:13, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
- Your choice of user name would indicate that you have a clear conflict of interest, which you are required to disclose on your user page. Connected users should submit suggestions on the talk page with the {{request edit}} template and a reliable source. Theroadislong (talk) 21:06, 5 May 2023 (UTC)