User talk:Vanished user 09121918291029

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Welcome!

Hello, Sören3300, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was CitizenLab, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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October 2024

Hello Sören3300. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Sören3300. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Sören3300|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. 331dot (talk) 12:23, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have no additional financial stake, other than that I'm with the marketing team and I just want our brand to be presented correctly externally. Apologies for disagreeing, but the edits I made are about our company name. Sören3300 (talk) 13:12, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As you are part of the marketing team, you are 100% certainly a paid editor and the Terms of Use require you to post the disclosure as instructed in my above message. Please do so soon.

Your rename request will be considered in due course by a volunteer, though the interests of your company in its search results- apologies for being frank- are not our concern. Our only concern is our policies- like WP:COMMONNAME and WP:NAMECHANGE(pardon the jargon).

Articles are generally titled according to the most common name used by independent reliable sources(i.e. Bill Clinton, not his full legal name William Jefferson Clinton, or his birth name, William Jefferson Blythe). 331dot (talk) 13:18, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @331dot, I added it. I did specify that I'm not getting extra compensation here, this all makes it look like I'm getting extra money out of it, which is not the case. Sören3300 (talk) 13:34, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, you don't need to be compensated specifically for editing Wikipedia, or specifically instructed to edit Wikipedia, to be a paid editor- your salary as an employee is sufficient. (otherwise every paid editor would deny being specifically paid to edit). 331dot (talk) 13:39, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not true that you're not appreciated- but you need to learn much more about our policies and how things work here before proceeding. See this page which may answer some of your questions. 331dot (talk) 15:08, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No one asked you to leave, please reconsider. 331dot (talk) 15:18, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]