User talk:Savannahdg

February 2020
Hello Savannahdg. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Quanta Services, 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 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:Savannahdg. 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. — Coffee //  have a ☕️ //  beans  // 06:53, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Good morning,

I am not being paid for my edits. I work for Quanta Services and I keep receiving messages from different companies asking for us to pay them to fix our Wikipedia page. I was trying to fix our page so it complies with the Wikipedia rules, instead of paying these companies that I've never heard of. I created an account 8 months ago so I could update the Quanta logo and our employee count, and now I'm trying to see what I need to do in order to have the flag from the Quanta page removed. My apologies if I am going about this the wrong way. Savannahdg (talk) 15:49, 19 February 2020 (UTC) Savannah
 * If you work for Quanta Services (the company you are writing about) you have a financial stake in the edits you are making, and thus you are required to disclose that (on your userpage) per the above instructions. Disclosure is required for being an employee of a company, just as much as one must disclose being paid as part of an outside PR firm. — Coffee //  have a ☕️ //  beans  // 08:47, 21 February 2020 (UTC)