User talk:CorporateDrone456

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Companies/F-L, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, a subject of that article (specifically, Grid Dynamics).&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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December 2021
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "AGridDynamicsMarketingSpecialist", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. – 2 . O . Boxing  20:56, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
 * AGridDynamicsMarketingSpecialist (talk) 23:04, 1 December 2021 (UTC) This is not a shared account, this is the only violation I see that would seem suspect for my username.
 * Your username violates this aspect of the username policy. I recommend you request a username change here, otherwise you may find yourself blocked from editing. – 2 . O . Boxing  00:09, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Please clarify this comment by user:FormalDude "(A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)". What changed in the last 5 months? AGridDynamicsMarketingSpecialist (talk) 17:50, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I think FormalDude may have missed something or misinterpreted the policy. The section you're referring to would be WP:ISU, however, your username doesn't denote an individual person. It's a position (marketing specialist) within an organisation, which would be in contravention to Usernames that are names of posts within organizations, such as "Secretary of the XY Foundation", are not permitted, as such a post may be held by different persons at different times.
 * I'm not gonna bother taking the issue further as I'm not at all fussed, but somebody else might. – 2 . O . Boxing  18:33, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, I guess for the sake of arguing (and avoiding more work), I am "A" Marketing Specialist, not "The" Marketing Specialist. Maybe when I have time Ill change it for fun to "CorporateDrone456" to avoid anymore fuss, but I doubt Ill be making enough noise to warrant the fuzz lol AGridDynamicsMarketingSpecialist (talk) 18:58, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for changing your username. –– FormalDude Emojione 1F427.svg talk 00:58, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Paid editing
Hello AGridDynamicsMarketingSpecialist. 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.

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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:AGridDynamicsMarketingSpecialist. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 21:18, 1 December 2021 (UTC)


 * AGridDynamicsMarketingSpecialist (talk) 23:11, 1 December 2021 (UTC) Hi User:Theroadislong, happy to disclose using the form you provided if my use-case falls under this rule. I am certainly employed by the company I submitted to the articles for creation, but I do not write articles here and I do not get directly paid to be on here to get an article about Grid Dynamics up on Wikipedia. I have a salary and this is one thing that I am overseeing (the submission of the article about the company). Can you indicate if I do fall under the need to disclose?
 * Yes, you should disclose your affiliation with Grid Dynamics per Wikimedia's terms of use. –– FormalDude Emojione 1F427.svg talk 04:54, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Roger that AGridDynamicsMarketingSpecialist (talk) 17:51, 2 December 2021 (UTC)