User talk:SpringpatchKoshka

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Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 03:57, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Mike Frerichs
Hello SpringpatchKoshka. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Mike Frerichs, 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:SpringpatchKoshka. 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.  TheTechnician27  (Talk page)  22:31, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello,  TheTechnician27  (Talk page).

I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I personally do support Treasurer Frerichs, however. That is why I have tried to make sure that all the additional information I have provided has an external citation from a reliable source. You may have noticed that Mike Frerichs was elected State Treasurer of Illinois in 2014, but his page has not been thoroughly updated since 2015. It had not even been updated to note his reelection in 2018.

Is there something else you need to know? Otherwise, I intend to continue adding in other information when I have an hour or two to volunteer, and always providing citations for the information.

Thanks.

SpringpatchKoshka (talk) 02:57, 9 November 2021 (UTC)SpringpatchKoskha