User talk:CaitlinSelca

March 2020
Hello CaitlinSelca. 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 Hinge (app), 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:CaitlinSelca. 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. Sdkb (talk) 00:16, 23 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Sdkb! I am in no way being directly or indirectly compensated for my edit. As a part of a school assignment, I am required to make contributions to any Wikipedia page. I am a first-time Wikipedia contributor and simply thought the page would benefit from more information about their marketing, thus I added my edit. Sorry for the confusion, I can take down the edit if need be! CaitlinSelca (talk) 00:36, 23 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Ah, that makes sense. Sorry for hitting you with that aggressive warning — we get a lot of PR people here who try to sneak promotional material into articles that goes against our policies on maintaining a neutral, encyclopedic tone. I'll give you a more appropriate welcome below. The edits have already been reverted, so no harm done. For future edits to companies, try to focus on what news coverage says about a company rather than just what the company says while promoting themselves, and avoid words like "successful" that aren't neutral. Best of luck with your assignment! Sdkb (talk) 00:43, 23 March 2020 (UTC)


 * It's okay! Totally understandable. Thank you for the information! CaitlinSelca (talk) 00:46, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

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Happy editing! Sdkb (talk) 00:43, 23 March 2020 (UTC)