User talk:Sikandril

Your submission at Articles for creation: RevenueStream (May 31)
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Sulfurboy (talk) 08:04, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020
Hello Sikandril. 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:Sikandril. 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. Sulfurboy (talk) 08:04, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Sulfurboy, as you correctly stated, as CTO & co-founder of RevenueStream (stated on my userpage) I am indeed indirectly compensated (vis a vis notoriety and public acknowledgement etc.) for editing efforts on an article referencing to the company.

I have updated the shortcode you suggested on my userpage to reflect this.

That said, RevenueStream is a startup that, philosophically and matter of factly, exists and generates public interest. I have done my best to remain factual and unbiased, with proper references, on this article. Of course if there is any need for editing and further peer review, this is most welcome.

Your draft article, Draft:RevenueStream


Hello, Sikandril. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "RevenueStream".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 13:48, 9 December 2020 (UTC)