User talk:Orod.REC

July 2020
Hello Orod.REC. 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 serious 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. 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:Orod.REC. 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. MrOllie (talk) 11:56, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi MrOllie, Thanks for your note. I do not intent to overtly promote a topic or brand. Yes, REC is my employer. In addition, I recognize how Wikipedia is often a go-to source for information. With that, I noticed that the information on the REC article page were either dated and/or factually inaccurate. Thus, I made edits to the article to make it more current and up to date. I would very much like to comply with Wikipedia's policies. Can you please advise/guide on how I can best do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Orod.REC (talk • contribs)
 * Please have a read of Paid-contribution disclosure, which I linked above. You may also find Plain and simple conflict of interest guide helpful. - MrOllie (talk) 12:22, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks will do so. But I have noticed you reverted back to a very, very outdated version of the article. What I wrote and updated today was neither promo nor COI. Was just updating from content that was online since 2016. Yu sent the article back to 2011. I find this a bit unfair, to be honest. I will review the links you provided and adhere to all policies of the community. I'd like to be a part of it! But again, no need to undo honest updates. Can we please undo the undo? Best regards.

Paid editing
As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Orod.REC, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Theroadislong (talk) 17:33, 21 August 2020 (UTC)