User talk:Malwareinfosec

March 2024
Hello Malwareinfosec. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Fiddler (software), 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:Malwareinfosec. 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. Jalen Folf  (Bark[s])  02:06, 27 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello, I was not paid to write this article.
 * I have used Fiddler for many years and found it to be a very useful tool. I even developed my own plugins which I shared with the community.
 * Over the years, I have been in contact with Telerik to share feedback and suggestions to their Fiddler suite of applications. I was not compensated for it, my interest was to improve a product I use. In fact, some of the ideas I proposed were implemented. For example, one feature I use a lot is Rules for malicious traffic detection, and I saw it implemented and improved in the latest Fiddler Everywhere.
 * I will say I was not familiar with the process for creating or editing articles, and I should have taken the time to understand the requirements before jumping in. I apologize for that.
 * I will not be making further edits. Malwareinfosec (talk) 19:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)