User talk:AfroUpdates

February 2024
Hello AfroUpdates. 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 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 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:AfroUpdates. 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. 331dot (talk) 08:47, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Achieng Akena, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:AfroUpdates, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. 331dot (talk) 09:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I am me, Achieng Akena. I am not paid by anyone. (redacted) 09:47, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * As explained in your deletion request, I have no ill intention as you have attributed to me. I simply found myself on Wikipedia this morning with a scanty info and sought to update it. I do not accept your disparaging my character in this way. I was simply following templates of other African women like me. (redacted) 09:53, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for acknowledging these messages. I've responded to you in the deletion discussion.  Remember to log in when posting(I'll censor your post as you indicated you wanted to avoid publicizing that information)
 * Please see other stuff exists. It could be that these other articles are also inappropriate and just haven't yet been addressed yet.  This isn't a reflection on you as a person, just what our policies are. 331dot (talk) 09:54, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Why would an article about African women in the human rights field be "inappropriate". You sound very subjective even if you are citing "out policies". 102.219.103.60 (talk) 09:57, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've explained this in the deletion discussion. 331dot (talk) 09:58, 12 February 2024 (UTC)