User talk:Softwhiteunderbelly

Hello Softwhiteunderbelly. 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:Softwhiteunderbelly. 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. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 20:52, 10 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi,
 * I have no idea how Wikipedia works. I was just given this assignment by my employer. This is who the Wikipedia page is for.
 * If there is a better way to go about this please let me know!
 * I would rather hire someone that knows what they're doing, and has experience with Wikipedia publishing.
 * I am probably breaking rules I did not even know existed.
 * I am learning as I go.
 * Thanks! Softwhiteunderbelly (talk) 21:02, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It's going to be hard to hire someone to do this (at least, to do it successfully) - most of the folks who make such offers are scammers. Your employer has given you a very difficult assignment. Maybe someone else will take an interest and come along to help you write the article (another editor already found two sources and posted them at the help desk) but most likely you'll be on your own with a steep learning curve ahead of you. To be honest, the very best thing to do would probably be to wait until someone else decides to write an article, someone who isn't being paid and who knows how Wikipedia works. Maybe you and your employer should read this essay carefully: An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 21:18, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for all your help!
 * Really really appreciate it! Softwhiteunderbelly (talk) 21:23, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Mark Laita has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Mark Laita. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 21:28, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

June 2022
 Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

You may request a change of username and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, post the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked. In your reasons, you must: Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  16:28, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.