Paid editing edit
Hello Mav5x5. 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:Mav5x5. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mav5x5|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. ~~~~ Theroadislong (talk) 17:42, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks Theroadislong! I am chatting with someone in Teahouse also to try and make sure I am doing this to the letter of Wikipedia guidelines (it's a bit of a learning process, so I appreciate the help). I am trying to understand how and where to put the template to be in full compliance. I work on communications with FSD Pharma and neither I, nor the company, have any issue with proper disclosure. We agree 100% with Wikipedia that any page on any subject should not be promotional and should be in an encyclopedia-type format and are working diligently to meet and exceed guidelines. Again, I appreciate you and your guidance. Mav5x5 (talk) 18:34, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Theroadislong. I see that you declined the draft for FSD Pharma, saying it is rife with undisclosed compensation. After working in live chat and with editors on Teahouse, it is my understanding that everything is properly disclosed. The article cites reputable sources and is certainly not promotional. You are, of course, the authority and I am certainly not trying to argue. Could you tell me what it is that I need to do to meet your criteria for approval, please? Mav5x5 (talk) 19:42, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
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