User talk:Schmidtse29

December 2021
Hello Schmidtse29. 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:Schmidtse29. 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. MrOllie (talk) 02:58, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello MrOllie. I am new to editing on Wikipedia and thought I had a neutral voice when making edits. This was my first article edit, so my apologies on these errors and thank you for messaging me about it. I was hired on a freelancing page to make updates to the page and add in additional sources. I'm not sure who employs the person who hired me. I would love to go back to editing and make it more neutral if I can. That being said, even if I am making it neutral, do I need to still disclose that I was hired to update? I think this is the right format? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schmidtse29 (talk • contribs)


 * You removed all criticism and turned that article into an advertisement. That is plainly not appropriate. You must add the disclosure to your user page, and as a paid editor you should not edit the article directly again. You may propose changes on the article's associated talk page. - MrOllie (talk) 03:30, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Okay, I understand this now. Did I do the disclosure correctly on my page?Schmidtse29 (talk) 03:38, 29 December 2021 (UTC)