User talk:Chris.tansw

September 2021
Hello Chris.tansw. The nature of your edits 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:Chris.tansw. 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. – NJD-DE (talk) 08:53, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Njd-de, I am just an employee of Autodesk. I am not paid to update their Wikipedia page, just want to correct some information on the links and logos on my employer pages that are outdated/incorrect. So should I update my profile as this? thank you for pointing out the term of use. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris.tansw (talk • contribs) 09:06, 11 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Chris.tansw, I know it can be confusing at first, but even though you are not specifically being paid by Autodesk for your edits on Wikipedia, you are considered a paid editor here. Anyways, you did the right thing by making the disclosure here, and on your userpage. If you want to update or correct some information, it would be best to place edit requests on the specific article talk page using the -template. Alternatively, you can also use the edit-request wizard. Thanks for your cooperation, and welcome to Wikipedia. – NJD-DE (talk) 09:16, 11 September 2021 (UTC)