User talk:Bmramirez

April 2020
Hello Bmramirez. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Axos Financial, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Bmramirez. 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. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 00:29, 10 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Jake - thank you for your concern. To confirm, I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for any edits done on Axos Financial or any other Axos Financial-related pages. Please let me know if this is sufficient to continue being a part of, and finding ways to enhance, the Wikipedia community. Thank you. Bmramirez (talk) 00:48, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. Your edit pattern gives rise to the impression that you may at the very least hold a WP:COI. There is an unusual pattern: a) most of your more substantial edits are on Axos-related companies; b) Axos-related companies have recently attracted a number of similar "single topic" editors. Single topic editing is not unusual for fringe topics or were there is a strong "fanbase", but is unusual for a financial company; c) internet searches bring many of those usernames into a very close vicinity of Axos. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 01:01, 10 April 2020 (UTC)