User talk:Dimitri Boylan 1

November 2023
Hello Dimitri Boylan 1. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Avature, 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 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:Dimitri Boylan 1. 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. SmartSE (talk) 16:08, 15 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi SmartSE,
 * I wanted to apologize for trying to edit the page content directly. I didn't know that this was not the process. I do work at Avature and I was asked to update the information. Since we were suggesting factual updates, can we place the changes in the talk section for an editor to pick up?
 * Looking forward to your answer
 * Thanks Dimitri Boylan 1 (talk) 19:55, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You are welcome to propose changes at Talk:Avature but it needs to be supported by references that are independent of the company i.e. newspapers etc - see WP:IRS. Just because something is factual, does not mean that it belongs here. SmartSE (talk) 21:44, 15 November 2023 (UTC)