User talk:Frederic Lavender

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Hello, Frederic Lavender, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Sustainable fashion, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome!  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  17:25, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
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Dear Juliet, I have only just read both of your messages and I have to say I was somewhat shocked. I can honestly say that I have no affiliation, no connection, no employment, no financial compensation or any other compensation in any other form from Veenofs. I am a passionate and life long vegan, humanitarian and animal activist. I was a little taken back at your word of 'promotion', as I was purely adding to what I thought was legitimate value to both pages in which are in question as there are other companies which have also been cited. I was wondering if this could be discussed as I feel my contributions were very relevant? Anyway, I hope that clarifies the situation and I look forward to speaking with you again. (Frederic Lavender (talk) 17:00, 20 February 2020 (UTC))


 * If a company doesn't have its own article in Wikipedia it shouldn't be mentioned in the manner that you did, with a long paean and non-neutrally worded description that reads straight out of the playbook of promotional editorialism. Please understand that your edits were absolutely emblematic, 199 times out of 200, of what paid editors do:  as their very first edits, they go into multiple articles and add a lengthy, glowing description of a person/place/company that doesn't have a Wikipedia article, inappropriately linked inline to the person/place/company's website in a manner that makes it look like the company actually has a Wikipedia article. This kind of activity is the biggest problem we volunteers face from new editors.  I invite you to ask for further thoughts at WP:TEAHOUSE, where you are likely to get a quicker response. I also highly urge you to read a lot of Wikipedia's policies and procedures regarding notability, verifiability, reliable sourcing, neutral point of view, and promotional content as a primer before making large additive contributions.  Thanks. -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  02:12, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
Hello Frederic Lavender. 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 Cruelty-free, 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 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:Frederic Lavender. 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.  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  17:27, 18 February 2020 (UTC)