User talk:Gilesrj

Your submission at Articles for creation: What3words has been accepted
 What3words, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Onel5969 (talk) 15:02, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
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March 2019
Hello Gilesrj. 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 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:Gilesrj. 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. SmartSE (talk) 14:24, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Agree with SmartSE that there are good grounds for suspecting WP:COI. Egroeg5 (talk) 22:29, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

What3words
Hi - I noticed that on October 28th of this year, you made this edit to What3words. You have disclosed that you have been paid to edit that article, and so you should not be making any edits to it directly. Please restrict yourself to making edit requests on the article's talk page, providing sources and the change you want to have made, so that other editors can evaluate your request. Failure to comply with our PAID policy may lead to your account being blocked from editing. Thank you. Girth Summit  (blether) 12:55, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Sure. (To clarify I am employed by what3words but not specifically paid to edit Wikipedia articles.) Gilesrj (talk) 12:58, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , understood, thanks. Even if they aren't paying you specifically for your edits though, you have a clear COI, so it's good practice to use edit requests. Girth Summit  (blether)  13:25, 30 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Please suggest changes to the article on the talk page and do not edit the article directly. Thank you SmartSE (talk) 08:02, 7 August 2020 (UTC)