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Just Step Sideways
from this world ..... today 17:47, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello FranCeska708. 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 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.
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User:FranCeska708. The template {{
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Theroadislong (
talk) 18:32, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the intel. I promise I will not edit further until my employer is disclosed. I went to the page but "{{paid|user=FranCeska708|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}" is Swahili to me! What am I supposed to do with that? There's no need to scold people who are flailing in good faith.
FranCeska708 (
talk) 18:35, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Place your employer's name where it says InsertName. If no client is involved, remove that bit. Then copy/paste the code to your user page, User:FranCeska708 - copy exactly what you see up there, it might be easier if you don't use the Visual Editor, which tends to insert unwanted markup. 57.140.16.48 ( talk) 18:50, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, FranCeska708, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages you might find helpful. For a user-friendly interactive help forum, see the Wikipedia Teahouse.
- Introduction
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- How to write a great article
- Simplified Manual of Style
- Your first article
- Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community
- Feel free to make test edits in the sandbox
- and check out the Task Center, for ideas about what to work on.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your name on
talk pages using four
tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our
help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on
my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome!
Just Step Sideways
from this world ..... today 17:47, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello FranCeska708. 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 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:FranCeska708. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=FranCeska708|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) 18:32, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the intel. I promise I will not edit further until my employer is disclosed. I went to the page but "{{paid|user=FranCeska708|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}" is Swahili to me! What am I supposed to do with that? There's no need to scold people who are flailing in good faith.
FranCeska708 (
talk) 18:35, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Place your employer's name where it says InsertName. If no client is involved, remove that bit. Then copy/paste the code to your user page, User:FranCeska708 - copy exactly what you see up there, it might be easier if you don't use the Visual Editor, which tends to insert unwanted markup. 57.140.16.48 ( talk) 18:50, 22 April 2024 (UTC)