User talk:EstherAtDUCA

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Help me! Can't remove the "subsidiary" from the right side summary
Please help me with... Hi. I'm trying to remove the company "subsidiary" indicated in the right column summary on our company page. That organization is no longer connected to ours. But that option does not display when I click on the "edit" function. Can you please direct me?

EstherAtDUCA (talk) 21:26, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅. I suppose we are talking about DUCA Credit Union? No subsidiary is shown in the infobox. Please be aware, that the page is  yours or your company's. Is it  your company. Sam Sailor 21:38, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018
Hello EstherAtDUCA. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to DUCA Credit Union, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, 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:EstherAtDUCA. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Sam Sailor 21:39, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

In response to your response...thank you & providing clarity
Hi. I hope this reaches the right person...I'm new to Wikipedia, obviously. I had a basic request about wanting to remove "subsidiary" from our listing which you responded to...I thought Google was pulling that information from the Wikipedia page but I guess it was not since "subsidiary" wasn't to be found anywhere on the W. page. So, sorry for the confusion. Yes, I am an employee of this organization and I simply wanted the information to be updated, i.e., number of employees, number of branches, correct full name and, yes, to remove the subsidiary which is no longer the case.

Beyond that, I have not made any other changes to the page understanding that this page is not our company page but, rather, it is a Wikipedia page about our company.

EstherAtDUCA (talk) 14:41, 20 December 2018 (UTC)