User talk:NbensonDCAS

April 2021
Hello NbensonDCAS. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services, 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:NbensonDCAS. 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. ninety:one (reply on my talk) 21:47, 26 April 2021 (UTC)


 * I am not being compensated for my edits. This page is for a government agency, not a for-profit entity, and the updates reflect current information on the government agency's website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NbensonDCAS (talk • contribs)
 * Ten seconds on Google shows that you are doing this as part of your employment, so you are being indirectly compensated for your edits. The fact that your employer doesn't make a profit doesn't make any difference I'm afraid. Likewise that the information may be accurate - it's your motives in adding it that is the primary concern. I strongly suggest you read our policy on conflicts of interest so you fully understand the position here. The long and short of it is that you should not be editing the article. If you want to make updates, improvements or changes, please propose them on the talk page of the article and another editor will consider them. ninety:one (reply on my talk) 18:07, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

It's up to you if you want to leave this information up, but accurate and up-to-date information was provided. I do appreciate your very courteous and informative response.