User talk:Epiksec

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 * Thank you so much. I am very new to the Wikipedia I have been consuming the information for years, but I have never edited a thing! It is a wonderful system. The edits I made were minor corrections. There was very serious bias in the opening paragraph. Also, I added the information about the new CEO. I really want to thank you for all your wonderful work, and I would love your help moving forward! Is there a way I can email you?
 * Sincerely Liza
 * https://www.einpresswire.com/article/588955207/epik-holdings-inc-founder-appoints-successor-ceo Epiksec (talk) 22:49, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 * We can continue to communicate via talk page; that's my strong preference for anything involving on-wiki information. Your edits that "Epik's current CEO is a free speech advocate and will help anyone right, left, or center. The new mission is to help preserve the freedom of speech online for all people." are not minor corrections, and are more like an advertisement than an encyclopedia article. Please consider not editing the article directly and instead suggesting edits on the talk page. Please also disclose if you are paid to edit—I'll leave the boilerplate message below which explains that in a little more detail. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 22:56, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I see you changed my edits back. That is weird... I thought the wiki was all about truth and providing good information. I am sure you agree the current description is very negative and frankly it reads like a hit piece clearly not neutral. It is a fact that Epik has far-left websites as well as far-right but I think the real question is why would that matter if the company only has 1% of those. That would be like saying Apple builds iphones using slave labor in the first paragraph. Have you spoken with the CEO or anyone at Epik? It seem that everything on this page is wrong or very dated.
 * I am sure you understand that the wikipedia should be honest and a good source of truth.
 * If you can help that would be awesome! I would love your help.
 * Suggestions...
 * 1
 * "'Epik'" is an American domain registrarand web hosting company known for providing services to websites that host anyone. Epik's current CEO is a free speech advocate.
 * That is a provable statement and I believe he has ties to freethepeople and freedomfest if you want I can help you find proof.
 * 2
 * Epik has been described as a safe haven for banned or canceled websites because of its willingness to provide services to websites that other Internet service providers have denied service. Epik's leadership team is fiercely opposed to deplatforming.
 * They do claim to be the switzerland of the domain industry in ads back in early 2019 but that is three years ago their new ads all have the any deplatforming more speech is the answer type messaging. Also I believe it is a known fact that the new CEO has other companies as well that will platform anyone and he is fiercely opposed to deplatforming.
 * Also more proof for that statement the old CEO Rob Monster - I saw him in an interview where he said that this was a huge problem. I think he also did a few interviews discussing this.
 * Hope that helps! Epiksec (talk) 01:54, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I wasn't clear—I meant that you should make these suggestions at Talk:Epik.
 * Wikipedia articles must describe how subjects are described in independent, reliable sources (see WP:NPOV)—not how companies or their executives describe themselves. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 01:10, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

September 2022
Hello Epiksec. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Epik, 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:Epiksec. 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. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 22:56, 27 September 2022 (UTC)