User talk:KPRICS

January 2024
Hello KPRICS. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 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 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 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:KPRICS. 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. 331dot (talk) 17:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello. I am not paid to make edits to Wikipedia. KPRICS (talk) 20:04, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * What is your association with RICS? 331dot (talk) 20:08, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I have no association with RICS. I saw an article about the organisation's residential survey, then looked it up and found that the information about it on here was out of date. I thought I'd set up a wiki account up to make a change.
 * Forgive me, but I find this mode of questioning peculiar. I have never experienced anything like this upon joining any website. Am I under some kind of investigation? KPRICS (talk) 20:20, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm just asking questions. You incorporated RICS into your username and you are editing about them. If you were associated with them as that suggests, you would be required to comply with certain policies. Declaring paid editing(which is not limited to specific payment for edits, but involves any paid relationship) is a Terms of Use requirement. However, as you say you aren't associated with them, there is no issue. Good luck. 331dot (talk) 20:32, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you. For the record; I put RICS in my username because my limited imagination couldn't think of anything else at the moment of signing up. Cheers. KPRICS (talk) 21:47, 24 January 2024 (UTC)