User talk:Parkco2021

December 2020
Hello Parkco2021. 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 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:Parkco2021. 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; 12:02, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your concern. I am not affiliated with Catherine Corcoran but am a fan of hers. I've always wanted to get involved with wikipedia and thought starting with a topic which I am familiar with would be a good start. I am currently employed at Best Buy in San Pedro, California. (Parkco2021 (talk) 18:53, 2 January 2021 (UTC))Parkco2021
 * As per off-wiki evidence I can say that you were hired through Upwork to create Draft:Catherine Corcoran so the choice is yours, either you disclose your paid editing status or get locked from editing Wikipedia. GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 03:35, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

I can confirm that I was NOT hired through Upwork to create Draft: Catherine Corcoran. Any job listings on Upwork were not ones which I was aware of and have no involvement in. I am happy to provide employer information upon private request to confirm these claims. I have never had an Upwork account and am not affiliated with them. Parkco2021 (talk) 00:58, 5 January 2021 (UTC)