User talk:Charlieb89

May 2020
Hello Charlieb89. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Onfido, 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:Charlieb89. 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) 12:14, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your note. I am a new user of Wikipedia, and my aim was to make the page more factually correct. I have since learned it is necessary to disclose paid editor status, and have rectified this issue on my user page. Thanks

Hi. Please could you confirm if I have taken the correct necessary steps to disclose paid editor status? If so, can we get the warning removed from the Onfido page. If not, please could you advise what other steps I can take to get this warning removed? Many thanks 10:30, 27 July 2020 (UTC)


 * ✅ Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 15:58, 27 July 2020 (UTC)