User talk:Dulieu Paul

October 2015
Hello Dulieu Paul. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Feronia Inc.. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice. 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, and if it does not, 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, 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:. 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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  01:18, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Feronia Inc.. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  01:18, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello Orangemike

Very happy to complete the disclosure and apologies for not doing so before making the edits - it is my first time of contributing to Wikipedia and so I am not au fait with all the rules and I am learning as I go. I presumed by using my name, rather than some sort of pseudonym, I was being transparent, but recognise that you have your protocols, which is fair enough and which I have now, hopefully, complied with.

With regards your suggestion that I added 'promotional material', I was wondering if you could clarify as I thought I was adding factual and well documented content, correcting inaccuracies, the Company's belief and a publically available response to the allegations made.

Many thanks for your guidance. I, like you, value the accuracy, impartiality and balance that Wikipedia provides and I am a huge fan of Wikipedia. I hope to hear from you soon, welcome further guidance and hope to contribute within Wikipedia's rules and guidelines.

Dulieu Paul (talk) 09:43, 24 October 2015 (UTC) Dulieu_Paul