User talk:Chris at Revs

September 2019
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. creffett (talk) 00:22, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Hello Chris at Revs. 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 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:Chris at Revs. 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. creffett (talk) 00:23, 28 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Creffett, Thanks for reaching out about the external link edits. Revs Institute is a research library, archive, and museum located in Naples, Florida with an extensive collection of automobile history, including millions of photographs, manuscripts, artifacts, ephemera, and more. As part of our photograph digitization efforts, we're wading into Wikipedia as a way to add historical resources to automotive-related pages, much in the same way sites with driver biographies or race results are added to the External Links section. Revs, my colleagues, and I do not have an undisclosed financial stake with our Wikipedia edits. Our images are freely available for viewing and sharing and we only sell an image upon direct request. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Thanks, Chris at Revs Chris at Revs (talk) 13:23, 30 September 2019 (UTC)