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Mgendronaugustyn, are you willing to do a bit of homework? I'd like you to go to WP:Five pillars and start reading there. You should not be looking for an entry point or a way around our rules on PE. I'd like you to demonstrate you're willing to make an investment by doing some basic reading. I have a case study for you to read, but I'd like you to better understand what we're trying to do here first, and why we're motivated to protect the pedia in the ways we do. If you make it through 5P, we can discuss the case of a successful PR professional on Wikipedia User:CorporateM, and how he was able to wrestle inside the system to create pagespace for paying clients and stay within the rules. BusterD ( talk) 17:46, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hello Mgendronaugustyn. 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.
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Theroadislong (
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Mgendronaugustyn, are you willing to do a bit of homework? I'd like you to go to WP:Five pillars and start reading there. You should not be looking for an entry point or a way around our rules on PE. I'd like you to demonstrate you're willing to make an investment by doing some basic reading. I have a case study for you to read, but I'd like you to better understand what we're trying to do here first, and why we're motivated to protect the pedia in the ways we do. If you make it through 5P, we can discuss the case of a successful PR professional on Wikipedia User:CorporateM, and how he was able to wrestle inside the system to create pagespace for paying clients and stay within the rules. BusterD ( talk) 17:46, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
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