User talk:RosalindLoadbalancerorg

RosalindLoadbalancerorg (talk) 12:05, 4 March 2021 (UTC)== March 2021 ==

Hello RosalindLoadbalancerorg. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Loadbalancer.org, 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:RosalindLoadbalancerorg. 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. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:36, 3 March 2021 (UTC) ————————————————————————————

Hi Curb Safe Charmer,

Thank you for your message, it has helped me understand the guidelines and rules a bit more. I've put the disclaimer on my profile now. I'm not 100% sure whether I submitted our draft page through the 'articles for creation' process but I have a strong feeling I did. Therefore, hopefully, we've followed the rules on the account that I started it drafting the article on (Loadbalancer2). I already put a disclaimer on first draft saying that I was being paid by the company to write it as their employee. For this particular topic, we're hoping to just try resubmitting the article in order to get it approved.

I've now made the disclaimer on my username page RosalindLoadbalancerorg and only had to create a second account because I thought that that was what the feedback from our first draft encouraged, for us to have a username that identifies us as an individual but connected to the company.

If all of that said, you'd still advise me to stop making edits then I'd love to be redirected to where I can help rectify this.

Thank you for your time, RosalindLoadbalancerorg (talk) 12:05, 4 March 2021 (UTC)