User talk:Ramakrishnagugulothu

August 2023
Hello Ramakrishnagugulothu. 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:Ramakrishnagugulothu. 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. 331dot (talk) 09:43, 27 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Dear 331dot,
 * Thank you for your message. I want to clarify that I have not received any compensation for my Wikipedia edits. I am editing Wikipedia voluntarily and do not have any financial interests in promoting any specific topic.
 * I appreciate your diligence in upholding Wikipedia's policies, and I will continue to contribute to Wikipedia in accordance with its guidelines.
 * If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel free to ask.
 * Sincerely,
 * Ramakrishnagugulothu Ramakrishnagugulothu (talk) 16:30, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * You claimed the professionally taken image of Mr. Aveli as your own personal work, so you must know him order to have had him pose for you? 331dot (talk) 16:41, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Dear 331dot,
 * I appreciate your inquiry regarding the image of Mr. Aveli. I would like to clarify that I do know Mr. Aveli personally, and the image was taken with his consent. If needed, I can provide additional information about our connection.
 * Additionally, I'm sharing Mr. Aveli's office address (Aveli Group Head office, Hyderabad). This may be useful for future reference or verification.
 * The website of aveligroup is currently in maintenance mode.
 * If you have any more questions or require further information, please don't hesitate to ask.
 * Best regards,
 * Ramakrishnnagugulothu. Ramakrishnagugulothu (talk) 16:54, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * If you work for him or his company(which I assume you do if you are in his office), you are a paid editor, you do not need to be specifically paid for editing. You are thus required by the Terms of Use to make the paid editing disclosure, as my initial message instructs. At a minimum, you have a conflict of interest.
 * Regarding the image, unless you personally took the image, you cannot claim it as your own work. The photographer typically holds the copyright, unless Mr. Aveli has a contract with the photographer assigning him or the company the copyright. If you did not take the image, you must request its deletion from Commons, as Commons only hosts "free" images(in terms of copyright). The photographer or copyright holder must be the one to upload the image, understanding that means anyone may use it for any purpose, including commercial, with attribution. (Like political opponents, for example) 331dot (talk) 17:29, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm the photographer who captured the photo of Mr.Aveli. I request you to explain how to make a COI article.
 * Best regards,
 * Ramakrishnagugulothu. Ramakrishnagugulothu (talk) 18:12, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The best thing to do is not attempt to force the issue, and for you and Mr. Aveli to go on about your business as if you had never heard of Wikipedia, and allow an article to develop in the usual way, when an independent editor takes note of a topic in reliable sources and chooses on their own to write about it. That's the best indicator of notability.
 * Keep in mind that there are good reasons to not want an article.
 * If you still wish to proceed, you must formally declare your paid status as instructed. You should then go to WP:AFC to start creating a draft, summarizing what independent reliable sources choose to say about Mr. Aveli and what makes him meet our definition of a notable person. 331dot (talk) 18:24, 27 August 2023 (UTC)