User talk:Pilarjk
May 2024
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Hello Pilarjk. 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 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 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:Pilarjk. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Pilarjk|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. ElKevbo (talk) 23:38, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hello - I didn't realize the terms of use. I just created a user page to disclose that I work for the University of Tampa and I edited Theresa Dahlberg's page because she starts her tenure as UT's president on June 1. I made edits for accuracy to her bio page. Pilarjk (talk) 03:14, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick reply. We welcome your suggestions and requests in the articles' Talk pages but you are strongly advised to not make edits directly to articles when you have a direct financial conflict-of-interest. ElKevbo (talk) 04:04, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- What's the best approach to submitting those edits to the Talk page -- do others have access to see the draft edits I've already submitted? Or do I just paste the recommended new content into a post on the Talk page? Thanks for your guidance. Pilarjk (talk) 12:07, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick reply. We welcome your suggestions and requests in the articles' Talk pages but you are strongly advised to not make edits directly to articles when you have a direct financial conflict-of-interest. ElKevbo (talk) 04:04, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Other editors do have access to your drafts in Wikipedia so you're welcome to post a link to a draft in the article's Talk page. If a requested edit is short and focused then you can certainly paste it into Talk. But both approaches are valid. ElKevbo (talk) 12:59, 9 June 2024 (UTC)