Mandatory paid editing disclosure

Hello Ostbevern1971unlimited. 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:Ostbevern1971unlimited. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ostbevern1971unlimited|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. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:51, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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First of all I want to state that I am not the person of Friwo that edited the article round about 7 years ago and I don't know who that is. All of the edits I implemented yesterday were due to reliable intern company sources and I didn't get any direct or indirect compensation for that. I noticed that the content in this article is seven years old and was showing an old logo as well as wrong employee and revenue figures. I think it is in our common interest to keep the article as timely as possible. If there is any promotional wording or content, please let me know so that I can alter the article; or you can do it yourself. There is no commercial interest in the editing. I just want to have the article up-to-date. If I am not allowed to update it, no one will do it and the community would have to deal with outdated information. Addtionally, I do hold all rights reserved for the pictures I uploaded, despite them being available on the company's website. I promise that I do have the authority to use this pictures. I hope that you trust my will to inform Wikipedia users and allow me to upload sourced pictures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ostbevern1971unlimited (talk • contribs) 07:24, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You are being evasive. What is your association with the company? Are you an intern? And if you are an intern, how do you personally own the copyright of company graphic assets?

Your assertion that if you are not allowed to edit the article, "then no one will do it" is completely false. You are free to propose changes on the talk page. The mechanism for doing so is to preface your proposal with the tag {{request edit}}.

You clearly have not read or understood Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure linked in the message above. You are required to disclose a paid editing relationship even if you are being compensated indirectly, not just being directly compensated for editing here. If you are an employee, you must disclose that. ~Anachronist (talk) 20:35, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Anachronist:Sorry for causing any misunderstandings in the editing process of this article. You're right that I am an FRIWO employee. However, all I wanted to do is level our english Wikipedia article to the German version. That version included our new logo and updated figures, but the english version didn't. I am from the Marketing team, which means I took the pictures that I uploaded myself; additionally I am enabled by my company to use these pictures. I didn't think about requesting changes in the talk section to be honest, because I thought it would take too much time. Since the information were already present in the German version and were controlled as well as accepted, I thought it would be no problem to match the English version with the German one. For now, every content piece that I wanted to include is contained in the article, so I am not going to edit anything else. Feel free to check the article and the information, I am sure that everything said is true and does only consist of information, not advertising content.

You have permission to use those pictures only on publications you own and control. You do not own or control Wikipedia or any of its content, and Wikipedia has not been given permission. We cannot rely on the claims of some random user account representing the copyright holder. The logo you uploaded can be considered public domain, but otherwise we need a formal communication from the copyright holder before a picture can be published here. See WP:CONSENT for the procedure. ~Anachronist (talk) 19:34, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]