User talk:Stuart Barr

October 2020
Hello Stuart Barr. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to HighQ (software), 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:Stuart Barr. 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. BegbertBiggs (talk) 09:24, 23 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello BegbertBiggs. I am an employee of HighQ and have made edits to the page to amend out of date or incorrect information and add additional information under the Industry Recognition section, which are purely factual. Please feel free to verify them. I do not receive any compensation for the contributions other than as part of my 10+ years of employment by the company. I have also requested a page move to change the name to HighQ Solutions. I do not see any issue with any of these edits, please clarify. Stuart Barr (talk) 13:41, 23 October 2020 (UTC)