User talk:Micah-Appsilon

February 2022
Hello Micah-Appsilon. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to R (programming language), 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:Micah-Appsilon. 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. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 12:09, 2 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Joe_Roe. That is incorrect. I have corrected this error by posting the disclosure on my user page at User:Micah-Appsilon. Is the next appropriate action for me to remove the :direct edit to R (programming language)?


 * If the direct edit is removed, may I resubmit the edit under the talk page? I apologize for the error and any complications I may have caused. –Micah-Appsilon (talk) 14:11, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for disclosing. I've already removed the edit. If you want to suggest edits related to your employer then yes, you must use the talk page. But I should stress that this and the disclosure are minimum requirement: we would much prefer that you don't edit on behalf of your employer at all (see the "nutshell" and first paragraphs of WP:COI). –&#8239;Joe (talk) 10:07, 3 February 2022 (UTC)