User talk:ChrisGonzalez2020

July 2020
Hello ChrisGonzalez2020. 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 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:ChrisGonzalez2020. 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. Praxidicae (talk) 15:16, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to OnPage Corporation, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted.   ◊ PRAHLAD balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 17:40, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to OnPage Corporation, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:ChrisGonzalez2020, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. ''I'm only going to warn you once more, read your talk page and disclose and stop editing the article. If you continue to edit without following the terms of use, I will submit the evidence to arbcom and you will be blocked.'' Praxidicae (talk) 17:49, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have an undisclosed financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:
 * Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
 * State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
 * Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future. MER-C 13:12, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

> I've read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements. > I'm a paid employee at OnPage Corporation/I'm affiliated with OnPage > I intend to edit my User Page, disclosing that I'm a paid employee at OnPage. I would like to update the OnPage Corp. wikipedia for 2020.

> Ok. I want to write about IT service alerting ... nothing related to my employer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChrisGonzalez2020 (talk • contribs)
 * No. That's literally the business your employer is in. Come on, now. --Yamla (talk) 15:08, 13 July 2020 (UTC)