User talk:Golf retirement

March 2023
Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Synopsys, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Amigao (talk) 23:54, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't think this warning is appropriate. This doesn't look like a "test edit", but rather a good-faith attempt to change content. It may be an attempt to whitewash something the company would rather have less attention on. Regardless, I was going to revert the edit because it is not an appropriate external link. See External links for the guideline on when external links are appropriate. As a general rule, they do not belong in the body of the article, and we certainly do not replace body text with external links.--Srleffler (talk) 00:01, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your email.    The comment in question makes an unsubstantiated claim that is referenced in a document which does not state there was a partnership.    In fact, the exact quote is below...
 * We canvassed the lists of “industry-university collaborative education projects” published by the Chinese MOE in 2018 and 2019. 53 In those two years, MOE documents indicate that the China-based subsidiaries or joint ventures of 13 U.S. technology companies established training programs with China’s Seven Sons of National Defense. These companies include Autodesk, Dell, Google, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, National Instruments, Rockwell Automation, Synopsys, Tektronix, and Texas Instruments. We have not been able to confirm that every one of these companies actually established the training programs indicated by the Chinese government. However, we have been able to find corroborating information about several projects in news articles and on university and company websites. Below, we present three examples:
 * None of the three examples mention Synopsys. Golf retirement (talk) 14:59, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Hello Golf retirement. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Synopsys, 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:Golf retirement. 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. Amigao (talk) 14:03, 13 March 2023 (UTC)