User talk:Cmackenzie876

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Happy editing! Chetsford (talk) 00:51, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

October 2021
Hello Cmackenzie876. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Adam Kovacevich‎, 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:Cmackenzie876. 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. Chetsford (talk) 00:52, 13 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Chetsford - Thanks for reaching out. I'm new to editing anything on Wikipedia, so apologies if I edited something I shouldn't have. I work for Chamber of Progress - the same organization that Kovacevich founded - but I was not asked to edit his page and am not being paid to edit his page as part of my job. The only change I made was to remove the text that said Kovacevich is the sole employee of Chamber of Progress. As one of the five employees at the organization, I know that's incorrect. Anyway, that's all I was trying to edit. Apologies again if I should have made the edit in a different way. Cmackenzie876 (talk) 03:10, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * That's no problem at all! This is one of the most common mistakes on WP but, now that you've added the disclosure to your user page, you're set. (The above message is a template that sounds unnecessarily harsh.) Chetsford (talk) 17:30, 16 October 2021 (UTC)