User talk:Nick Yudin

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January 2020

Hello Nick Yudin. 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 Draft:Wheelchair power add-on, 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:Nick Yudin. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Nick Yudin|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. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 21:04, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Answer to Curb Safe Charmer

Hi Curb, You're more or less right. The thing is that I'm an inventor and patent holder of one of wheelchair power add-ons. I decided to search for info about such devices on Wikipedia and found 0 results. I know that such devices are becoming more and more popular, but a lot of people don't know that there are so many types for different needs. On manufacturers sites you may have only marketing materials, but not an overview of all types. That's why I decided to cover as many companies and wheelchair power add-on types as I could. This article is just the beginning and I will ask others to come and fill more info. My aim is not to highlight one or two companies and get paid, but to share my experience of using all of them. I'm sure that my experience in using such kind of devices is quite unique and I may stay neutral without highlighting someone. Please confirm that I should state my affiliation in this case and I will do it. Thank you. Nick Yudin (talk) 08:18, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

@Nick Yudin: thanks for your transparency. What you need to do is to add a declaration of a financial interest in the article(s) to (1) your user page, and (2) the talk pages of the articles where you may have a conflict of interest. There's information on how to do that above. If you really believe you have no financial interest in this, you can use the more general WP:DISCLOSE process instead. You can continue work on your draft as normal. You can make small uncontroversial changes to existing articles on the subject, but for anything that might take you into conflict of interest territory you need to make an edit request on the talk page of the affected article and an experienced editor will check whether the suggested edit is ok. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 08:51, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

@Curb Safe Charmer: thanks for the quick reply. I updated my user page with disclaimer and will keep on editing wheelchair power add-on page in neutral way Nick Yudin (talk) 09:14, 20 January 2020 (UTC).

Your submission at Articles for creation: Wheelchair power add-on has been accepted

Wheelchair power add-on, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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DGG ( talk ) 21:10, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

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I removed all mention of any company. Do not add them back. If thee is a published comparison, from an indepndent source , thta liststhem, it can be used as a reference or external link, but none should be mentioned in the article, especially the one that you have a COI with. DGG ( talk ) 21:12, 8 March 2020 (UTC)