User talk:ATMF2000

December 2020
Hello ATMF2000. 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:ATMF2000. 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. Blablubbs | talk 18:56, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Blablubbs- I am an employee of Miracle Foundation and attempted to update some information about our organization as some of our programs and info have changed. I did not realize this was in violation (I'm new to editing Wikipedia). I added a disclosure under my username as you suggested. How do I remove the flag on our page and continue with a few updates? Please advise or point me to where I need to go to resolve this dispute. Thank you.
 * Hi ATMF2000, you should not edit the article directly. Rather, please make an edit request (follow link for instructions) on the article's talk page.  If you have questions or need help, you can ask at the Teahouse. S0091 (talk) 17:46, 9 January 2021 (UTC)