User talk:68.237.27.31

February 2021
Hello, I'm Pahunkat. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to 7digital have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia.   Pahunkat (talk) 20:23, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
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 * If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

Hello 68.237.27.31. 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.

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:68.237.27.31. 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. Pahunkat (talk) 20:23, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hello! I am the Chief Marketing Officer for 7digital and I was updating the client list to be factually accurate, citing my sources as I went. In terms of being paid to do so, I'm paid to make sure the positioning of the brand and company is right and that the information is up to date, with the right current customers and company information. I have a login, but it wasn't working, and when I requested a password reset no email came to me or my junk mail so I started to edit outside the login - is that what created the issue? 68.237.27.31 (talk) 20:35, 25 February 2021 (UTC) Lara Peterson
 * Hello there, thanks for getting back to me! If at all possible try to get back to your main account, right now everyone can see your IP - and you can contact WP:Oversight so they can hide your IP is needed. The main thing here is that you need to disclose your status as a paid editor (as the marketing officer) on your userpage by following the guidelines laid out at WP:PAID and also at the talk page of the article. When making edits to your article, you should also adhere to a neutral point of view - I noticed that the lead of the article became 7digital is the global leader in B2B end-to-end digital music solutions, providing a scalable cloud-based platform that enables companies and brands to connect to its global music catalogue and rights management system to launch and manage unique and engaging music experiences. and so on which is written like an advert. We strongly encourage paid/COI editors to submit edit requests rather than edit the affected articled directly because it can be hard to write in compliance with the various policies around here. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 20:44, 25 February 2021 (UTC) BTW if you reply to be here or elsewhere do ping me with  followed by the signature of four tildes. Sorry if this seems like a wall of text :-)