User talk:Mdenton Simcoach

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is Simcoach Games: Employees making edits, non-encyclopedic info. The discussion is about the topic Simcoach Games. Thank you. —Blooker (talk) 03:54, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Disclosure of employment
Hello Mdenton Simcoach. 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 Simcoach Games, 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:Mdenton Simcoach. 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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:14, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Reply From Mdenton Simcoach: I do work for Simcoach Games, though I was not paid to edit the article. I did it of my own accord outside of business hours and merely wanted to add more detailed information to the page and add onto the list of games produced by the company, which is fairly standard on video game Wikipedia. I wasn't intending for it to be promotional. I will disclose my employer on my page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdenton Simcoach (talk • contribs)


 * , Please understand that even if you don't get paid for it, if you are heavily opinionated due to being an employee and have written unfounded, boasting, unsourced and over-positive content about said company and their founders (which you fully uplifted on a personal level, for their achievements) which is now all removed.. that means, being clearly a COI writer, what was mentioned still applies to you: please refrain from further edits without proposing it instead. Also considering (as shown in the COI thread) that there have been multiple COI writers for your company, and the fact that one of them, which also was making COI edits to this article, received a warning in the past (here: User_talk:Kisher1234 - for writing an article about an executive, Eben Myers of Etcetera Edutainment - now Simcoach Games - yet people from your company (such as yourself) decided to continue making COI edits.. it would be highly appreciated if you tell the company and everyone there that may or may not register on Wikipedia in the future, to stay away from this article or at least conform themselves with the COI policy and disclosure. I also think that this article has to be monitored more regularly even to spot irregular edits (unsourced, over-the-top positive about the company, etc) to also avoid hidden employees or paid writers (not disclosed or visible in their name, like you) from returning the violating content. --Blooker (talk) 07:22, 5 January 2020 (UTC)