User talk:WikiWriter1005

November 2023

Hello DCLbell.bank. 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:DCLbell.bank. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=DCLbell.bank|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) 15:39, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am a current employee for Bell Bank. DCLbell.bank (talk) 15:42, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, please follow the instructions provided to make the needed disclosure on your user page. In general, you should avoid directly making edits related to your bank, but you may make edit requests(click for instructions) on article talk pages. 331dot (talk) 15:45, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the clarification. I will keep this in mind moving forward. DCLbell.bank (talk) 16:36, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Username Change

How to change username to something with more anonymity? Thank you. DCLbell.bank (talk) 15:38, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Special:GlobalRenameRequest or WP:CHUS. 331dot (talk) 15:42, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keeping Talk pages clean

As a paid contributor, is it good practice to keep talk pages clean and delete edit requests after they have been approved/rejected considering the "revisions history" functionality? If so, would that need to be done by an editor after the request has been approved/rejected? By constantly updating an article, I would like to shy away from spamming talk pages with edit requests if possible. Please advise with clarity. Thank you! WikiWriter1005 (talk) 15:43, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]