User talk:BIMMMB83

May 2024
Hello BIMMMB83. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to BIMM University, 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:BIMMMB83. 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) 10:14, 14 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, you've lost me. I was just updating the page for the company I work for.  It was out-of-date. BIMMMB83 (talk) 10:42, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * If you are employed by this company, that makes you a paid editor and you are required by the Terms of Use to make the paid editing disclosure as described in my above message. You should also review conflict of interest and how to make edit requests; in most cases you should not directly edit about your employer, but you may instead propose edits on the article talk page. 331dot (talk) 10:45, 14 May 2024 (UTC)