User talk:CSEnergyLisa1973

February 2020
Hello CSEnergyLisa1973. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to CS Energy, 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:CSEnergyLisa1973. 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. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 12:44, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi, I have realised I created two accounts in error - this is an old one and I now use LisaW at CS Energy, which I have recently replied to you on. I am going to close this account to avoid further confusion, and will just use the newer account going forward. I was not aware until recently that I should disclose if I am making edits as part of my job. Now that I am aware, I'm just trying to rectify the issues with CS Energy's page. CSEnergyLisa1973 (talk) 01:54, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I have just added the paid declaration on this profile. Ideally, I would like to close this account to prevent accidentally using it again as I will continue to use the newer account going forward. The other option is can I merge the accounts, but I don't think this is possible? I appreciate your help. CSEnergyLisa1973 (talk) 02:10, 9 May 2024 (UTC)