User talk:Daycoulter

Welcome!
Hi Daycoulter! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:

Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.

If you have any questions, we have a friendly space where experienced editors can help you here:

If you are not sure where to help out, you can find a task here:

Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 20:58, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello Daycoulter. 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:Daycoulter. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 18:54, 21 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry new to Wikipedia. I am an employee of the company, so being paid yes. But trying mostly to get a page up that reflects the company without being Marketing. We have made significant edits to our copy and hope that we now meet the requirements. Please advise if I need to update my profile based on this information, thanks :) Daycoulter (talk) 18:57, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Please follow WP:Paid and WP:COI you should not be editing article directly, and you need to follow what was written above and declare you paid on your user page. Paid editors find it hard to write information in a neutral fashion and in the case of this specific article the article has been edited inappropriately multiple times by individuals who have a clear WP:COI with the organization-- VViking Talk Edits 19:05, 21 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I just added that to my user profile Daycoulter (talk) 19:05, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I am a full-time employee by the way not a freelancer or someone who was hired specifically for this task. I have been with the company for 32 years. I am not meaning to break rules, it is overly complicated to understand how to get information up on the page. Please advise, thanks! Daycoulter (talk) 19:11, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Should I submit our article through this page: Articles for creation??? Please advise, thank you! Daycoulter (talk) 19:19, 21 July 2023 (UTC)