User talk:Kburnside 13

March 2020
Hello Kburnside 13. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Quest Software, 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:Kburnside 13. 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. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 12:34, 22 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Curb Safe Charmer. Apologies, I'm still trying to catch up learning the platform. I work for Quest Software, and they have assigned me to update the pages based on copy that has been provided to me. I will update my profile accordingly and submit any proposed changes on the talk page. Thank you for the guidance.Kburnside 13 (talk) 20:42, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for making the disclosure. When you add content to an article it must be written in your own words. It is not acceptable to copy content from elsewhere. Also, it is not acceptable to use Wikipedia for advertising or promotion so any content that other editors feel is promotional is liable to be removed. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 08:24, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm aware of that. I did not realize the copy that was provided to me by our communications team was pulled directly from our site. I've told them that is a huge Don't, and asked them to fix each phrase that was marked as a duplicate. Once they have made those fixes, I will submit them to the talk page.