User talk:Contractguru

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ironclad (company) (March 17)
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S0091 (talk) 21:02, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Ironclad (company)


A tag has been placed on Draft:Ironclad (company), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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March 2023
Hello Contractguru. 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:Contractguru. 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. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:20, 20 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, and thanks for the feedback! I do work for Ironclad, though I wasn't paid specifically to write this. I did submit the article though the articles for creation process, which is why I thought it would be acceptable for me to submit, even as an employee. I will promptly disclose my employer using the template provided. As a Wikipedia reader, I do appreciate the governance and quality control. For what it's worth, the first version I submitted was mostly written by ChatGPT, and I thought that would mean it was unbiased. But reading it over later, I recognized that that was not the case, and I've deleted everything that seemed potentially problematic. I hope there is still a chance to publish any unbiased version of an article about Ironclad, because as a user, it seems as notable as any other software company. Again, thanks for the guidance! Contractguru (talk) 20:04, 20 March 2023 (UTC)