71.4.22.10

Paid editing on Wikipedia

Hello 71.4.22.10. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Numerica Credit Union, 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:71.4.22.10. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=71.4.22.10|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.

You declared an employer-employee relationship with Numerica Credit Union here. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:02, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

I do get paid as an employee of Numerica Credit Union, but am not getting paid to edit this page. It is just part of my job description. 71.4.22.10 (talk) 22:35, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Can you explain how you [are] not getting paid to edit this page but stated this on Talk:Numerica Credit Union: I work in the marketing department for Numerica Credit Union. I was tasked with updating our wikipedia page [...]? At any rate, it looks like you need to follow the disclosure instructions Bri provided above. I would also strongly recommend creating an account for yourself. Keep in mind that your username is seen publicly, so choose one that allows you to retain a modicum of anonymity (or a nickname, but avoid anything that might be personally identifiable like your last name, full name, etc). —Locke Cole • t • c 23:28, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

I created an account for myself yesterday. If I disclose on that account that I am a paid editor, can i submit edits to Numerica's talk page and have a bit more luck with them getting approved? 71.4.22.10 (talk) 15:52, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Creating an account

If another user is active at your IP it could give the appearance of a shared account, which is not allowed. You may want to create an account to avoid the possibility of violating WP:SHAREDACCOUNT policy. There are other benefits as well, such as watchlists. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:54, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

There is no other user at this IP address. 71.4.22.10 (talk) 22:35, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

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