User talk:MkkeV 558

Anonymity
Hi! In partial answer to your post at Talk:American Industrial Partners: Wikipedia does indeed guarantee anonymity to those who choose it – linking an editor to the identity of a real person (unless with the permission of the editor) is a very serious offence here, and can lead to permanent expulsion from the project. A very small number of highly trusted users are able, under strict conditions, to see the IP address of a registered editor to help prevent damage to the project; I am not one of those users. My question to you was based only on your behaviour, which was not that of a volunteer editor; thank you for now giving a straight answer, much appreciated (and regrettably rare); you'll forgive me for saying that I was not able to believe the earlier reply.

As for what you can do, the simple answer is "not much". Here's a block of boilerplate text: "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."

You should refrain from making any substantial edit relating to the company in any article (or to be on the safe side, refrain from making any such edit in article space). If you discuss the company anywhere in the project you must mention your connection when doing so. You are free to propose changes to the company article using request edit on the talk-page, but ... there are about two hundred such requests waiting to be answered, and wordy requests are increasingly unlikely to be answered. Do please use this process if there are major errors or omissions of basic fact in the article – we want to correct those where possible; if it's something important you could also ping me to that page. Please don't use it (as many do) to try to massage the text into standard corporate promo-speak – we don't use that here, and indeed remove it where possible. Sorry, this is too long. I wish you luck! (Oh, what about becoming a volunteer Wikipedia editor instead?) Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:27, 13 November 2021 (UTC)