User talk:Secretary at IFAN

Paid editing
Hello Secretary at IFAN. 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 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:Secretary at IFAN. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 15:17, 14 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * I am not sure that you received my previous reply so I am replying again.
 * I am not paid to do edits nor write an IFAN page on Wikipedia. IFAN has no employees and its members give their time as unpaid volunteers. I am a member of one of IFAN's members.
 * I have access to an IFAN email address and I though that this was the best one to use to create an account. If this is wrong and you would prefer me to set up an account in my own name to edit the page, please let me know
 * Thank you Secretary at IFAN (talk) 14:07, 19 February 2024 (UTC)