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Happy editing! Gdrged (talk) 12:29, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

June 2020

Hello Surgeness. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Digic Pictures, 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 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. 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:Surgeness. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Surgeness|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. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:08, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Thank you for the clarification message. I am not getting paid by Digic Pictures for my edits. I am Hungarian and this is a Hungarian animation studio, which I love, so I tried to edit their English page in order to add their works. My additions are based on their Hungarian Wiki page and their official website. Surgeness (talk) 11:15, 23 June 2020 (UTC)Surgeness[reply]

It's strange that your additions are so similar to those of MagillaJ, who has declared as a paid editor, which you can see here. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:04, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As I said, I have translated the Hungarian table from Wiki, and extended it with info from the website. Maybe they were the editor of the Hungarian table? Surgeness (talk) 11:35, 24 June 2020 (UTC)Surgeness[reply]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, maybe that's the case. In future, please don't remove the maintenance templates at the top of an article without addressing the concerns they relate to, as this can arouse suspicion (especially when a COI template is involved). Also, when copying between different language versions of Wikipedia, please make sure that you follow the attribution requirements set out at WP:TFOLWP. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:55, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]