MatrimBloodyCauthon
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January 2019 edit
Hello MatrimBloodyCauthon. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Georgia van Cuylenburg, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.
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, and if it does not, 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:MatrimBloodyCauthon. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MatrimBloodyCauthon|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. Per this post where you say you have been "contracted" to edit the article, and use the word "we" to refer to yourself. bonadea contributions talk 17:35, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:46, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hello! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to break the TOS- I'm currently trying to add the paid contributor, or whatever template is necessary here so I can edit again, and hoping I can save the Wikipedia page I worked on with outside editing help MatrimBloodyCauthon (talk) 22:12, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
- Go to your user page (User:MatrimBloodyCauthon).
- # Click the Edit tab.
- Insert the following code:
{{paid|user=MatrimBloodyCauthon|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}
- If you are being paid by Georgia van Cuylenburg directly, then put her name as the "employer" and omit the "client" value.
- If you are being paid by a third party on her behalf (e.g. a PR agency), then the name of the third party is the "employer" and Georgia van Cuylenburg is the "client".
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