User talk:Jennifer Kocher

Please take note
Hello Jennifer. On the basis of your username and off-wiki evidence, I take it that you are affiliated with the office Jake Corman; I can also infer that you recent edit to Jake Corman comes in light of recent media coverage. Please be advised that both the Wikimedia Foundations terms of service and Wikipedia's paid editing policy requires editors to disclose their employers, clients, and affiliations with respect to any contribution they make. Assuming you fall under the purview of these policies, see WP:PAID and WP:COI for how to come into compliance with this requirement, and please do so at the earliest possible convenience. I will generate our standard paid editor notice for you to peruse below. Best.--SamHolt6 (talk) 23:53, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Hello Jennifer Kocher. 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:Jennifer Kocher. 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. SamHolt6 (talk) 23:53, 7 May 2019 (UTC)