User talk:Mark PokerStars

Hello Mark PokerStars. 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:Mark PokerStars. 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. Iffy★Chat -- 12:21, 29 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello Iffy. Thanks for sending the message. I am new to Wikipedia and at first glance it's fairly complicated to know what to do! I work for PokerStars as the SEO Team Lead and have updated my user page with this information as requested. The edits I made on our Wikipedia page were about the company information as it was out of date and incorrect. I assume this it is OK for me to edit this info if it's wrong in future? Mark PokerStars (talk) 13:02, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you Mark. You are strongly recommended to use the template on Talk:PokerStars to make edit requests when you want to make any changes to the article, even if the changes may seem obvious to you. Iffy★Chat -- 13:17, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks Iffy. Will the edits I already made stick or should I request these again on the Talk:Pokerstars page as you've suggested. Thanks for the help! Mark PokerStars (talk) 13:20, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I will review the edits you have already made, so you won't need to edit the talk page right now. If you have any issues with any changes I make after review (or any edits by anyone else), then these do need to go on to the talk page. Iffy★Chat -- 13:24, 29 November 2021 (UTC)