Kasia.AB

June 2023

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. [1] MrOllie (talk) 14:53, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello Kasia.AB. 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:Kasia.AB. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kasia.AB|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. MrOllie (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

I am not being paid for my edits. This is my first time editing, and to be transparent I work for Redwood who owns ActiveBatch which is the actual company name. I was updating the logo to be relevant to today vs the former companies name. If you visit https://www.advsyscon.com/ you will see that the logo I added is correct Kasia.AB (talk) 15:03, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

The Paid editing requirements absolutely apply to you. MrOllie (talk) 15:04, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Sorry! It's my first time editing on wikipedia. Do I just edit and add {{paid|user=Kasia.AB|employer=Redwood|client=ActiveBatch}} to all my edits? Kasia.AB (talk) 15:08, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

You add the notice to you user page, and then you stop editing articles associated with your employer directly. Instead you make suggestions on the article's associated talk pages which unaffiliated editors will review. This is explained in the links in the above message - click on them and read thoroughly. MrOllie (talk) 15:12, 30 June 2023 (UTC)