February 2023 edit
Hello Seb bw. 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:Seb bw. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Seb bw|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. 331dot (talk) 12:30, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Hi there,
- Thanks for your comment. This comes down to me not quite understanding how Wikipedia works, with my apologies. I am the Executive Director of BASIC, and BASIC's page has not been updated for a number of years, so I was trying to update the page to reflect the organisation today. I am not paid, except by being a staff member.
- What steps should we take to ensure that the Wikipedia page is up to date? Seb bw (talk) 12:33, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- If you are paid a salary by the organization, that meets the definition of "paid editor" under our rules, and you will need to follow the instructions above. You will also need to read about conflict of interest. You should not directly edit about your organization, but you may make formal edit requests(click for instructions) detailing changes you feel are needed, on the article talk page(Talk:British American Security Information Council). 331dot (talk) 12:38, 16 February 2023 (UTC)