User talk:Robbychase

Please do not mark your edits as "minor" when they do not meet the criteria
Hi Robbychase! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Jumia that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 22:19, 18 June 2024 (UTC)}

Paid editing
Hello Robbychase. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Jumia, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Robbychase. 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. Melcous (talk) 22:33, 18 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * I have never received any payment or intend to receive any payment for the edits done on the page. Robbychase (talk) 23:14, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for responding. Can you please also clarify whether you have a connection to the subject of the article and therefore a conflict of interest? A google search suggests that you do, so if that is the case, please just be up front about it and then you can work with the guidelines here to ensure that is properly disclosed and managed. Thank you Melcous (talk) 00:02, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi,
 * I had a connection to the subject in the past. I joined Wikipedia almost 8 years ago and I never did an edit. I am only trying now to start editing a page that I feel I can get sources to back up before starting out to create other articles. Robbychase (talk) 06:00, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you. For subjects you have/had a connection to, please read throught the Conflict of interest guidelines which essentially boil down to two key principles:
 * Please disclose your conflict
 * Please use the edit request feature to propose changes on the talk page rather than editing the article directly.
 * Thanks, Melcous (talk) 07:55, 19 June 2024 (UTC)