User talk:Jody Boshoff

May 2023
This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, as you did at Public relations, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. Sam Kuru (talk) 02:28, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello Jody Boshoff. 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 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:Jody Boshoff. 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. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:47, 31 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I am on no way paid for this submission of this page to wikipedia. I am not paid to write this paid or submit it. I am a novice at this platform and apologise for not knowing not to submit non academic style links. thank you! Jody Boshoff (talk) 01:56, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Given a hypothetical example of a PR firm creating conflict-of-interest promotional entries for their clients, would you agree that gives every appearance of an ongoing paid/retained relationship with the subjects? I've disabled this account until a more integrity-based answer to the question above can be given. Thanks. Sam Kuru (talk) 03:43, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I’m not on retainer with easy Crypto or paid to submit this page. I am a huge fan of their platform and having used Crypto.com and others I think they need a page on here. I’ve reviewed them on trust pilot too. 49.224.201.159 (talk) 03:49, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * You literally have a blog where you "share our clients' coverage" and it includes Easy Crypto, Cogo and GD1. Sam Kuru (talk) 03:59, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes occasional work - absolutely no retainer and not paid to submit this. 49.224.201.159 (talk) 04:20, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm sure that after the multiple previous promotional attempts by the company were deleted two days ago, you just happened to create an account and drop by pretending to be a disinterested third-party that "uses this page for my purchases" and a "huge fan". Jody, there are several professional organizations in the public relations space that offer classes and guidance in ethics. This is not a good look, nor is adding links to promotional articles for "former" clients. Sam Kuru (talk) 11:49, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks Sam. I do use Easy Crypto to invest. They are not paying me to put a page up. I am now across how wiki works and won't add promo links (which I though was ok). Have a great day. I believe they should have a page up. :-) Jody Boshoff (talk) 20:00, 31 May 2023 (UTC)