User talk:NPOLICY

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Hello NPOLICY. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 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:NPOLICY. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 20:38, 26 October 2022 (UTC)


 * To whom it concerns (Viewmont Viking), the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center contests being considered for deletion by Wikipedia. The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center is a legitimate nonprofit educational 501(c)3 organization that conducts no lobbying. It has no financial stake in promoting any topic. All of its funding is disclosed on its 1099 and comes from recognized legitimate, nonpartisan charitable foundations. No one has been, is, or will be compensated for any edits to any Wikipedia entries. NPEC's staff simply did not know what the rules were when it made the edits it did today. It will submit a proper entry soonest. NPOLICY (talk) 21:18, 26 October 2022 (UTC)