User talk:Ahiraj
Hello, Ahiraj, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay.
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- If you have a question that is not one of the frequently asked questions below, check out the Teahouse, ask me on my talk page, or click the button below. Happy editing and again, welcome! Rasnaboy (talk) 16:27, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
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October 2022[edit]
Hello Ahiraj. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Notion Press, 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:Ahiraj. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ahiraj|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. bonadea contributions talk 11:14, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hey Bonadea, Thanks for letting me know. I am new to the whole concept of contributing to Wikipedia. Still need to understand the Talk page and things like that.
- Just to confirm, I am an employee of Notion Press. So on my user page I would need to put {{paid | user=Ahiraj | employer=Notion Press}} right? Ahiraj (talk) 04:58, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
- Yep, that's the way to do it. Thank you for being clear about your connection to the company. Your next step is to use the article talk page, Talk:Notion Press, to post suggestions (requests) for edits; do this instead of editing the article directly. Follow the steps outlined here. Also note that promotional content such as "The unique strategies applied depending upon the book helps boost book sales by making sure that the book is accessible to every potential reader." is not appropriate for an encyclopedia article, so any requests to insert that kind of empty wording is not going to be accepted. Regards, --bonadea contributions talk 17:44, 19 October 2022 (UTC)