User talk:Psenda2018

Are you an employee of American Capital or Ares Management?
Hello Psenda2018. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Psenda2018. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:00, 21 February 2018 (UTC)


 * My apologies as I am very new to the Wikipedia site and trying to understand and adhere to the policies. First I want to clarify that I am not being paid or have any any financial interest in American Capital. The company, American Capital Strategies, no longer exists as it was purchased by Ares Corporation.  I was one of many who were employed by American Capital and since there are no websites or current data on American Capital, I was hoping to have a place to document the history and successes of the company.  I looked at other pages of corporations such as Kraft Foods, General Motors, Target Corporation, etc. and thought their pages were similar in the historical information, time tables, growths and expansions as well as other historical events within these companies.  Currently the only difference from the American Capital page to the others is that I have not yet fully understood how to cite the facts and figures.  Based upon the comments received, I now understand and learning how best to cite the url/web pages to confirm to the statements written on the American Capital pages.


 * Based upon my learning curve and not yet having the citations listed, I would like to request that the notation to have the pages deleted be removed as I continue to work on it and complete the citations. Thank you. 00:05, 26 February 2018 (UTC)00:05, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * The articles about other companies largely use independent sources. The few affiliated sources are the exception.  Also, I asked if you are employed by not only American Capital, but Ares Management as well.  Ian.thomson (talk) 00:18, 26 February 2018 (UTC)


 * No, I am no longer employed by American Capital and am not employed by Ares Management.Psenda2018 (talk) 00:24, 26 February 2018 (UTC)