User talk:ChloeIsCute2010!

April 2023
Hello, I'm Alalch E.. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Strong Interest Inventory have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. You are interested in promoting careerassessmentsite.com —Alalch E. 22:36, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello ChloeIsCute2010!. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Strong Interest Inventory, 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 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:ChloeIsCute2010!. 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. You are probably an employee or a paid promoter of careerassessmentsite.com —Alalch E. 22:38, 19 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Alalch, I am not a paid promoter, actually I am the owner of Career Assessment Site and honestly was just trying to improve the page. I do not care about the link. You can add the content and not list my site as a resource if you wish. The page just seemed like it lacked and was a little light on good content. I do not need the link. The page this content came from ranks #2 on the first page of google for "Strong Interest Inventory" ABOVE wikipedia. So in any case, no harm done, I will not try to improve Wikipedia in the future though I know I write quality content. Again the link to my site is not at all needed. Thank you. This was the first time I added something to your site, but will not do so again as I did not understand I was breaking any guidelines. Was just trying to help the community. ChloeIsCute2010! (talk) 22:45, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * No problem, and thank you for understanding. We discourage conflict of interest editing in order to protect the integrity of the encyclopedia. If there's anything else you'd like to do one the site, you're very welcome to. If you ever change your mind and retain a particular interest in contributing to this Wikipedia article, you may suggest changes on the talk page. It may be that you added reasonable content. However it wasn't sourced properly, according to our standards, using secondary sources. Your site can't be seen as secondary source in this sense, and despite it being a popular site on this topic, we can't really recognize it as a reliable source for our encyclopedia-building purposes. Sincerely—Alalch E. 22:53, 19 April 2023 (UTC)