User talk:Nickhartley27707

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. — Infogapp1 (talk) 02:37, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

July 2020

Hello Nickhartley27707. 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 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. 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:Nickhartley27707. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Nickhartley27707|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. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 03:17, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

RESPONSE FROM Nickhartley27707: Hey there, thanks for the note. At the time I was employed by Toptal but did not receive direct compensation for the sole task of updating the wikipedia page. We did a rebrand the year prior and I happened to notice that the logo never got updated on the wiki page. I also saw a founder's name was misspelled so I fixed that in the process (as was noted clearly in the history). At this point, I don't currently work at Toptal and have no interest or intent on making further edits to the page. Nickhartley27707 (talk) 05:40, 30 November 2021 (UTC)Nickhartley27707[reply]