User talk:MAR1947

Hello MAR1947. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Mamphela Ramphele, 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:MAR1947. 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. Melcous (talk) 13:30, 12 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I have no financial stake nor am I receiving payment from Dr Ramphele. I am merely keeping her profile accurate as someone keeps adding 'politician' to her profile and it annoys her. I am her Executive Assistant(paid by the Club of Rome) who have no interest in her personal Wiki Page.  I update her website and social media by posting her speeches and keep an eye on what is on the internet and report fake accounts.   If I am not allowed to keep her page accurate then whomever is responsible please remove politician and block anyone else from editing. 197.94.90.65 (talk) 14:00, 12 October 2023 (UTC)