User talk:Maria.ACDSee

January 2020
Hello Maria.ACDSee. 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 ACDSee, 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:Maria.ACDSee. 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. MrOllie (talk) 18:40, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Thank you for your concern with the ACDSee Wikipedia page. I am an employee of ACDSee and was updating the information on the page to be more accurate and up to date. All my information was stated in a neutral tone and were facts about the updated program. All my information was cited. Would you please advise on how I can proceed with updating the ACDSee Wikipedia page. Thank you. Maria.ACDSee (talk) 21:51, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I am wondering if my response has been reviewed and if I am able to update the ACDSee Wikipedia page. Maria.ACDSee (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2020 (UTC)


 * You should not edit the page directly. Please read over Plain and simple conflict of interest guide - MrOllie (talk) 23:45, 10 February 2020 (UTC)