User talk:Sskim555

September 2020
Hello Sskim555. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Abra (company), 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:Sskim555. 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. Infogapp1 (talk) 19:54, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

I apologize if I broke any rules or procedures, but I would like to express that I am not a paid advocate of Abra. I am however a customer of Abra, but again, I'm sorry if I broke any rules or policies of Wikipedia. If I may ask, I would like to know exactly what requirements pertain to writing an article that would categorize it as biased, since I was merely trying to display as many facts as possible mainly pertaining to the history and usage of the Abra app. Thank you for your time and patience. Sskim555 (talk) 21:44, 16 December 2020 (UTC)