User talk:174.73.13.136

About Conflict-of-Interest/Paid Editing
Hello, 174.73.13.136. I am a fellow editor on this site with an overly-lengthy username. Sorry.

I noticed that you seem to have made quite a number of edits to the article Bellwether Technology Corporation, and that you later added refs to related articles advertising the aforementioned company. This, plus the fact that your IP address geolocates to the southeast United States (where the company is located) leads me to believe you might be working for this company (or at the very least, have a strong conflict-of-interest with the company).

I don't know if you're aware that Wikipedia has a rather stringent policy regarding conflict-of-interest editing or paid editing (since one of the fundamental rules of Wikipedia is that all articles must be written from a Neutral Point of View, and it is nearly impossible for someone that has a relationship with their company, or is being paid to promote their company, to achieve that). The full policy can be seen here (or a more condensed version can be seen here, since I know the original can be quite long and overwhelming), but in short the policies require this:
 * You need to disclose both on the article's talk page and on your user page that you either have a conflict-of-interest with the company, or that you have been paid to edit the article for the company (as well as mention "who is paying you, who the client is, and any other relevant role or relationship" in the latter case).
 * If the former is the case, you can most easily do that using the connected contributor template on the former and the UserboxCOI template on the latter.
 * If the latter is the case, you can most easily do that using the Connected contributor (paid) template on the former and the paid template on the latter.
 * You are  strongly discouraged  from directly editing the article, regardless of whether you are being paid or not; instead, it is highly recommended that you post the changes you wish to make on the article's talk page alongside a request edit template. That way, your requested changes can be listed in this category, and anyone patrolling that category can come and make the changes for you.
 * I should also mention that you are allowed to directly edit the article to make uncontroversial changes (fixing spelling/grammatical errors, etc.), but you should still be very careful when doing that.

I hope this is helpful; if you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page, or to ask questions at the Wikipedia Teahouse, where you will find several welcoming editors that will be happy to help you.

— TheHardestAspect&shy;OfCreatingAnAccount&shy;IsAlwaysTheUsername: posted at 20:19, 20 May 2020 (UTC)