User talk:Sherrena

Welcome
Hello Sherrena. 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 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. 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:Sherrena. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 14:34, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Socking
Hello, Sherrena, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia. Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you.-- VViking Talk Edits 14:42, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Sock Puppet investigation
You are suspected of sock puppetry, which means that someone suspects you of using multiple Wikipedia accounts for prohibited purposes. Please make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, then, if you wish to do so, respond to the evidence at Sockpuppet investigations/Sherrena. Thank you. VViking Talk Edits 15:08, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

June 2020
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:27, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

As a very limited user, I was not aware of the conflict of interest rule against employees making updates It is true, I am the communications director for Merkle Inc. For nine years, I have been responsible for periodically updating this page when changes occur. However, my understanding of the platform is admittedly limited, because this is only a very small portion of my job. I have had issues in the past with reviewers saying that my content was too promotional. At first, it certainly was, as I was brand new to the resource and was unaware that this was not allowed. Over time, and with much painstaking and frustrating back and forth with unsympathetic reviewers, I removed every descriptive word I could to ensure the page sticks to the facts. I had no idea that it was illegal to be an employee of the company that is the subject of the page! I can no longer see the history of comments, but I don't recall anyone mentioning that in their unrelenting criticism - or if they did, I certainly wasn't instructed to disclose my affiliation with the company - I have no problem doing that. But I am confused as to how else a company can have an accurate Wikipedia page. Unless a company is publicly traded (Merkle is not), only insiders would have knowledge of the facts - revenue, employee numbers, offices, executive leadership changes, acquisitions, awards, etc. Most sizable companies have Wikipedia pages. How does their information get populated? By strangers? I can't imagine why anyone besides an employee or agency would care to update Merkle's information. For example, it's a fact that we have a new CEO as of June 1. That fact needs to be reflected on our Wikipedia page. The current information (which I changed before someone reverted to an older version) now shows the wrong person is CEO. I would think that accuracy is of utmost importance. Again, I am more than happy to disclose that I am an employee of Merkle - I simply didn't know that was required. After being chastised for it, I did read about the COI and the disclosure, but I can't find instructions on exactly how or where to place it. But the information says that even with the disclosure, I'm not supposed to make changes to the page. So, how would I update the simple facts? Another question is, why does someone keep deleting our awards? When we receive recognition from industry figures, we aren't making them up. They are facts. Why is this not allowed to be posted? Check out this list copied straight from Accenture's page: Awards[edit] In 2016, Accenture was ranked No. 289 on the Forbes Global 2000 list. In 2016, Accenture was ranked No. 312 on the Fortune Global 500 list. In 2016, the firm was named 15th in the Top 50 Companies for Diversity by DiversityInc. In 2017, Accenture was ranked No. 272 on the Forbes Global 2000 list. In 2017, Accenture was ranked No. 305 on the Fortune Global 500 list. In 2017, the firm was named 14th in the Top 50 Companies for Diversity by DiversityInc. Accenture is one of 12 best management consulting firms of 2017 in America according to Forbes. In 2018, Fortune magazine named it as the world's most admired Information Technology Services company. In 2018, Accenture was ranked No. 316 on the Fortune Global 500 list. In 2019, Ethisphere Institute recognized Accenture for the 12th time. Fortune named Accenture one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For from 2009 to 2019. CR Magazine named Accenture No. 23 in its top 100 Best Corporate Citizens list for 2019. In 2019, Accenture was ranked No. 248 on the Forbes Global 2000. In 2019, the firm was ranked No. 7 in the Top 50 Companies for Diversity by DiversityInc. In 2019, Fortune magazine named it as the world's most admired Information Technology Services company. In 2020, Fortune magazine named it as the world's most admired Information Technology Services company. In 2020, Klas Research named it as "Best in KLAS Overall Healthcare Management Consulting Firm".

Why is this allowed for Accenture, and not for Merkle? Did an unpaid person update these for Accenture? I guess I just don't understand how this works. Can you please educate me? I try to use the resources provided by Wikipedia, but it could take a whole semester in school to understand everything, it is so complex with so many rules. And I can't hire an expert, because it would be a conflict of interest.