User talk:MT at PEROSH

October 2020
Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created PEROSH, and I noticed that your username, "PEROSH2", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why.      Transcendental (talk) 18:32, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, MT at PEROSH, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was PEROSH, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Disclose your employment on your userpage
Hello MT at PEROSH. 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:MT at PEROSH. 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. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:49, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * You work for Perosh, so you are deemed to be a paid editor and you are required to make the mandatory declaration on your user page. Theroadislong (talk) 16:42, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

== Hi, I'm replying to a message from Ian. I am not paid by anyone to edit Wiki. Wiki editors are welcome to use the 3rd party references/citations (ie not from PEROSH) I provided to add to the PEROSH page if they wish. ==

MT at PEROSH (talk) 15:42, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Look at a section title and click "edit" to respond" instead of clicking "new section" all the time.
 * The "at PEROSH" part of your name, combined with your promotional edits, indicates that you're an employee. It doesn't matter if you're not being directly paid to edit, it doesn't matter if no one at PEROSH told you to edit -- if you are employed by or affiliated with PEROSH then you are considered a paid editor and must disclose your employment per our terms of use.  If you are not employed by or connected with PEROSH, then your username and behavior suggests trolling on your part.
 * Either way, your only choices left are: disclose your employment as previously instructed or be indefinitely blocked for wasting our time. If you take literally any other action besides putting the paid editor template on your user page, you will be blocked.  If you try to argue that your employers at PEROSH did not ask you to do this, or that you don't even work for them, you will be blocked.  Ian.thomson (talk) 21:47, 27 October 2020 (UTC)