User talk:Mario Schimak

August 2020
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it.  MrOllie (talk) 12:21, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. MrOllie (talk) 12:33, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello Mario Schimak. 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:Mario Schimak. 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) 12:34, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello Mr.Olli, OK I understand and apologise. The issue was if I understand correctly the inclusion of external links to the article and the corresponding potential COI. I was trying to update and partially correct the article from a scientific point of view which is not possible without inclusion of the tool required for this approach (for example Material and Methods in a scientific publication). My idea was to later add new pages of the tools/machines themselves as these do not exist at present. Is it possible to add links under "External links" after I give a full disclose of any potential COI. I have seen this for example on articles such as the "iPhone" which also links directly to Apple.com in this manner? Many Thanks Mario Schimak (talk) 13:06, 26 August 2020 (UTC)


 * As a conflicted editor you may make suggestions on talk pages, but you should not be writing about your employer's products or adding external links to your employer yourself. - MrOllie (talk) 13:14, 26 August 2020 (UTC)


 * OK understood and apologies again. I didn't thinks this through properly but it of course makes absolute sense.Mario Schimak (talk) 13:32, 26 August 2020 (UTC)