Hello Karimshawarby84. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Rania Al-Mashat, 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:Karimshawarby84. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Karimshawarby84|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. Melcous (talk) 14:43, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I'm editing inaacurate information for Rania Al Mashat due to a recent Cabinet reshuffle in Egypt.
- I'm an employee at the newly merged Ministry, working in the comms team - and again editing old infomration regarding the Minister.
- Appreciate accepting our edits. Karimshawarby84 (talk) 15:15, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, if you work in the comms team for the ministry, that very much falls under the definition of being indirectly compensated for your edits - both by Wikipedia's definition and by the common sense definition. Note how it says above
"editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests"
. I also work in comms, and basically the entirety of comms is "being employed by an organisation to promote their interests". - Please read the paid editing rules and follow them. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 15:18, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, if you work in the comms team for the ministry, that very much falls under the definition of being indirectly compensated for your edits - both by Wikipedia's definition and by the common sense definition. Note how it says above