User talk:174.72.182.203

April 2021
Hello 174.72.182.203. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to White Ops, 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:174.72.182.203. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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.  scope_creep Talk  12:21, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hi there... I don't really know how to respond to messages, so I hope this is the way to do it? Sorry if not. I'm not a seasoned Wikipedia user.

The changes I made to the White Ops article were just a find-and-replace to reflect the company's new name and, since I had the editor open, made some grammatical tweaks to soothe my inner snoot while I was at it. No new info or removal of existing info or anything. But if those kinds of edits are frowned upon, I apologize (mostly because I had no idea).

I can also assure you that I have not been compensated for those edits, directly or indirectly. I can't imagine a company would pay someone to update the grammar on a Wikipedia page, anyway, but I almost wish we lived in a world where they *did*... just because that would mean more people cared about grammar at all, heh. What I wouldn't give to change every mistaken use of "login" to "log in" on social media sites' user interfaces.

174.72.182.203 (talk) 21:37, 18 April 2021 (UTC)Noob Editor