User talk:Ecampusim

March 2021
Hello Ecampusim. 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:Ecampusim. 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. ElKevbo (talk) 15:23, 9 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for bringing this to my attention and I will refrain from making direct edits for the time being. Any future edits that may pose COI will be disclosed in the edit summary. Furthermore, I have added a disclosure to my Wikimedia commons user page. However, no edits to date have been paid contributions or are part of job responsibilities on behalf of any company, nor have I been directly or indirectly compensated for these edits. I'm familiar with these two topics and noticed some knowledge gaps where further information could be added. Per your guidance, I'll continue to research these protocols to avoid COI going forward.
 * Ecampusim (talk) 19:23, 9 March 2021 (UTC)ecampus


 * I strongly recommend confining edits to the Talk page of articles if there may be any question about a potential conflict of interest. Avoid even the appearance of impropriety and all that... 19:42, 9 March 2021 (UTC)