Hello NosdivadJA. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to PLP Architecture, 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.
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SmartSE (
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16:21, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi there, I have now added (I hope correctly) the disclosure on my profile page. I am an employee of PLP Architecture and wish to update our company's information to be correct and relevant. NosdivadJA ( talk) 16:33, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Your disclosure is correct, thank you. Please review the procedure to make
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Drm310 🍁 (
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16:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you making the disclosure. The main problem with your edit though was that the language was highly promotional and does not belong on Wikipedia:
PLP Architecture is an architecture and urban design practice with offices in London, Singapore and Tokyo, with a permanent presence in Milan and Amsterdam. The studio works globally, with ongoing projects in the UK, across continental Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Services include architectural design, urban design, industrial design, strategy (including placemaking and workplace) and research. PLP Architecture’s work is supported by in-house research and innovation group PLP Labs, which helps develop novel solutions and thinking in collaboration with external partners.
SmartSE ( talk) 17:04, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Your disclosure is correct, thank you. Please review the procedure to make
edit requests for articles where you have a
conflict of interest. Thanks. --
Drm310 🍁 (
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16:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello NosdivadJA. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to PLP Architecture, 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:NosdivadJA. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=NosdivadJA|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.
SmartSE (
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16:21, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi there, I have now added (I hope correctly) the disclosure on my profile page. I am an employee of PLP Architecture and wish to update our company's information to be correct and relevant. NosdivadJA ( talk) 16:33, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Your disclosure is correct, thank you. Please review the procedure to make
edit requests for articles where you have a
conflict of interest. Thanks. --
Drm310 🍁 (
talk)
16:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you making the disclosure. The main problem with your edit though was that the language was highly promotional and does not belong on Wikipedia:
PLP Architecture is an architecture and urban design practice with offices in London, Singapore and Tokyo, with a permanent presence in Milan and Amsterdam. The studio works globally, with ongoing projects in the UK, across continental Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Services include architectural design, urban design, industrial design, strategy (including placemaking and workplace) and research. PLP Architecture’s work is supported by in-house research and innovation group PLP Labs, which helps develop novel solutions and thinking in collaboration with external partners.
SmartSE ( talk) 17:04, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Your disclosure is correct, thank you. Please review the procedure to make
edit requests for articles where you have a
conflict of interest. Thanks. --
Drm310 🍁 (
talk)
16:46, 15 July 2024 (UTC)