User talk:Mallika350

March 2024
Hello Mallika350. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to 350.org, 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:Mallika350. 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. Annh07 (talk) 16:42, 21 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello, yes I am employed by the organization whose Wikipedia page I want to edit.
 * I would like to edit the page to make it up-to-date as it is outdated and add more information about the organization.
 * Can you guide me on how to do this in a way that is compatible with Wikipedia guidelines? Mallika350 (talk) 09:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your feedback. Because you work for an organization, you should not directly edit an article about your organization. This is because you have a conflict of interest with the organization, see WP:COI.
 * You should instead create an edit request on the article's talk page. To create an edit request regarding a conflict of interest you can follow the instructions here: Edit COI. Annh07 (talk) 09:23, 22 March 2024 (UTC)