User talk:SOPHIASONGPANDA

March 2021
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Editor creating sock account to avoid Paid editing disclosure. Thank you. CliveDunford (talk) 13:39, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello SOPHIASONGPANDA. 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:SOPHIASONGPANDA. 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. Fences &amp;  Windows  22:31, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

My answer to question: Editor creating sock account to avoid Paid editing disclosure
Hello, Team, First of all, thanks for your questions and great suggestions! My name is Sophia SONG. SONG is my family name. I am a newcomer here. I setup my account 7 days ago (March 26,2021). I am not a paid contribution. I am an employee of Keysight Technologies. I try to clean up broken links and redirect links due to website migration starting from March, 2021. Our goal is to improve users' experience on Wikipedia and make sure all links are valid to avoid customer dissatifaction.

Another reason is that Keysight was spun off from Agilent Technologies in 2014. Agilent does not offer or support any test and measurement equipments and softwares anymore, those went with Keysight when the company split. That's why we change Agilent to Keysight to avoid misleading our readers. You can see a sample page, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_integrity There are a lot of PDF files here on this page should be updated and a couple of dead links need to be fixed.

Thanks again for your time and help to reveiw my edits. I will try my best to follow all related guidelines.

Sophia SONG SOPHIASONGPANDA (talk) 06:54, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
 * If you work for Keysight and you are trying to update content related to Keysight, you are a paid editor and need to disclose that on your user page.--- Possibly (talk) 07:56, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Paid editing
SOPHIASONGPANDA: That you are an employee of Keysight means that you are a paid editor, even if you are not paid specifically to edit your company's interests. Since you are new to editing Wikipedia, I can assist you by informing you what you need to do to comply with Wikipedia'a terms and conditions.

In accordance with Wikipedia's terms and conditions, once you have declared your affiliation in the required manner, you are still not permitted to directly edit any article that is related to your employer (or parts of articles that mention your employer including links and references). Note: that under the terms and conditions you are still considered a paid editor even if you employer is not specifically paying you to make the edits.

You are required to declare your affiliation by placing the



template at the top of your talk page. In addition, you must place the



template at the top of the talk page of any affected article (just add your name if a template already exists using the next user number). And finally, you must place the


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template on your user page listing the articles to which you have contributed. (note that the articles go on separate lines which you can see if you edit this page)

I have filled in the templates for you so all you need to do is copy and paste them to the appropriate places. Please note: that if you copy the templates from this talk page in edit mode, then you do not copy the 'nowiki' and '/nowiki' tags or the '<' and '>' signs. These merely prevent the template code from displaying the template itself.

Once you have made the declarations, you are only permitted to propose an edit on the article talk page giving your reasoning for the change. You should use the template for this purpose giving your change in the form of "Change X to Y" along with reasons and references. The template alerts other users to your proposal. Another editor will then assess your request and either decline the edit or carry it out. Don't expect a quick turnaround as the edit request queue is usually backlogged. Please refer to WP:COI for more information.

If you do have any questions or concerns, simply add them to the end of this section and I shall endeavour to answer them (I am automatically notified if you add at the start of your reply. CliveDunford (talk) 13:35, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

SOPHIASONGPANDA (talk) 06:38, 7 April 2021 (UTC)