User talk:Southhope119

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January 2020
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Beyond Meat. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Zefr (talk) 17:22, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Can you help me understand how other wikipedia pages are able to add celebrity information without falling into promotion? see Jenny Craig, Inc. wikipedia page, as an example. Thank you

Southhope - you seem to have a keen interest and dare I say, an intimate knowledge of Beyond-Meat and have never done any other wiki editing on any other topic - can I ask, do you have a relationship with the organisation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.11.13.134 (talk) 18:29, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Not a direct relationship with the company, but huge fan of plant based foods, especially this company and others in the plant based foods space. I am new to Wikipedia, and I selected this company to build my Wikipedia skills and knowledge, so I appreciate the feedback received thus far. If I am doing too much, or if there is another way I should practice building my skillset, please let me know. You will see that I changed another article around a stadium built in my neighborhood, as I am keenly following the development for that particular topic, as well. When I receive more relevant content around that topic, I plan to update those pages, accordingly. Thanks!

May 2020
Hello Southhope119. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Beyond Meat, 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:Southhope119. 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.  scope_creep Talk  10:42, 31 May 2020 (UTC)