User talk:WisePraline

Nomination of Hemant Taneja for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Hemant Taneja is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hemant Taneja (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

Mccapra (talk) 12:38, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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April 2021

Hello WisePraline. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Hemant Taneja, 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:WisePraline. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=WisePraline|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. scope_creep^Talk 15:54, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm surprised to see this, scope_creep, given that I've responded to this allegation multiple times, including as part of the Hemant Taneja AfD discussion, which you contributed significantly to.

To be clear: I am not being compensated for my contributions to Wikipedia.WisePraline (talk) 16:53, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]