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Your submission at Articles for creation: Correns Corporation (April 1)
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DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:02, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Paid editing
Hello Merged account. 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 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:Merged account. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 14:21, 8 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello Theroadislong, thank you for your help and clarification. And please excuse me for my late reply due to other assignments.
 * First of all: I am not directly or indirectly compensated for my edits for the particular article you are referring to. I have also no family relationship to the employees or the shareholders.
 * However, due to coincidence, some of my family members and me have an overlap regarding prefererred living locations and experience of trade industry with the founder (Without ever getting in contact with each other). I believe this does not create a conflict of interest in terms of financial motivation, but is, so to say, not 100% unbiased.  I kindly ask you to accept as a minor topic, since risk reduction is existing with the independent proof reading of articles before publishing.
 * I will wait now to edit further on my current draft. Regardless if you give me red or green light to go ahead, please let me know if the request not to continue to edit is "only" related to the current draft, or also for creation/editing of different existing or new articles. Merged account (talk) 06:13, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello Theroadislong,
 * after reading your last message again, I conclude that I can go ahead without waiting for your green light, since I have answered your last message. If my understanding is wrong, please accept my apologies and help me to sit straight again. Merged account (talk) 06:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)