User talk:Connor xu

July 2024
Hello Connor xu. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to WeRide, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Connor xu. 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. Annh07 (talk) 06:54, 17 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello Annh07,
 * Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I apologize for any confusion caused by my recent edits. I have now added the required disclosure to my user page. You can find it here: [User
 * xu](link to your user page).
 * To clarify, I have disclosed my employer and client as per the Wikimedia Foundation's requirements:
 * I will ensure that all my future contributions adhere to Wikipedia's policies on paid editing and conflict of interest. Please let me know if there are any further steps I need to take or if additional information is required.
 * Thank you for your understanding and assistance.
 * Best regards,
 * Connor xu Connor xu (talk) 01:48, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your feedback. As previously advised, because you have a conflict of interest with WeRide, you should not directly edit articles about this organization, see WP:COI. To create an edit request regarding a conflict of interest you can follow the instructions here: Edit COI. Thank you. Annh07 (talk) 03:23, 18 July 2024 (UTC)