User talk:Mythmw

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mitrade (February 24)
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GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 10:32, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
Hello Mythmw. 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 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:Mythmw. 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. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 10:34, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi GSS, the below are my reply:

I would like to state that the nature of my edits is based on my free will and follows the format of other edits on broker firms available on Wikipedia (e.g. etoro and Plus500), and I do not possess a financial stake in promoting the topic. The references that I have included are also legitimate. It is thus an invalid action for me to comply to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements because there is no compensation in the first place.

To provide you with a little background, I am a veteran in the finance and trading industry and I believe that I can use my skills to help improve Wikipedia’s finance content to my best capabilities, and help people who are interested in finance yet lack the knowledge of it. It is rather unfair to assume that I have any financial links with the topic written. Furthermore, I have been editing (Chinese) content on Wikipedia and have not encounter any problems until now. I am taking this topic (Mitrade) as my first finance content project, and I have plans to move on to other finance companies after this. If this is the initiate response from the authorities, then how can it reassure my dedication to creating better content for the Wikipedia community?

Please let me know how I can improve the content that I have previously contributed (in this case, Mitrade) so I can do a better job at editing finance content.

Also, I have seen similar content approved and available on Wikipedia, such as IC Markets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_Markets), so what makes it different for Mitrade?

Please advise. Thank you.