User talk:Michał Toczyski

June 2024
Hello Michał Toczyski. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Michał Toczyski. 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. AntiDionysius ( talk ) 21:47, 25 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Dear AntiDionysius,
 * I will start by saying that I was surprised by your assessment of the article I edited. If you check my activity history on Wikipedia, you will see that it is quite limited and sporadic, with no signs of professional, let alone paid, involvement. My contributions are driven by admiration for the creative work of my friend, a young Polish queer ceramic artist who is achieving international success. The professional tone of the article may stem from the fact that I used a translator to help write it, as English is not my first language. I would gladly benefit from your experience and suggestions to refine the article.
 * Thank you Michał Toczyski (talk) 18:36, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The issue with your article was not that the tone was "professional", but that it was promotional - that is, instead of neutrally describing the topic, it talked about how great your friend's business is. This is one of the reasons people are not meant to write about their friends on Wikipedia, because they will almost never be able to do so neutrally.
 * Please read our policy on conflicts of interest. Even if you are not being paid for writing about your friend's business, you do have a conflict of interest about it, which means you are very very strongly discouraged from writing about it, and required to make certain disclosures if you do so anyway.
 * The reason I asked about paid editing was a combination of the fact that the article's tone was so promotional and that the first result when I googled your username was a person who describes themselves as the CEO of a marketing and SEO company. AntiDionysius  ( talk ) 18:48, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks again for your suggestion. Of course, I can work on the form of the article to make it less promotional, although the artist totally deserves promotion. The publications mentioned in the article are the most important magazines in Poland concerning art and design. The article about the artist in Label Magazine appeared in the print edition and is not available online. I can link to a preview of the article published on the magazine's official social media profiles. I would like to add that Duma mag is one of the most important titles presenting Polish queer creators and artists. Regarding Duma magazine, the session and interview with the artist were the cover story – this, too, is not available online, but we can also link to the cover presented on social media. As for myself, there are several Michał Toczyskis in Poland. I am a film producer and invite you to check out my projects described on Wikipedia. The Michał you found on Google is not me. Michał Toczyski (talk) 19:07, 26 June 2024 (UTC)