User talk:TechNerd1278

Your submission at Articles for creation: Carly Bigi (March 9)
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Jamiebuba (talk) 22:27, 9 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for sharing these insights! TechNerd1278 (talk) 00:01, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

RE: Draft:Carly Bigi ‎
A few things:
 * 1) . We cannot accept images that were previously published without an explict license from the copyright owner. Instructions on how to do this are at Donating copyrighted materials. It would be best to do this on Commons where you uploaded the image, since it has already been nominated for deletion.
 * 2) . Please be careful with your sourcing. You've used paid placements, advertorials, and some other unreliable sources.
 * 3) . Do not use promotional language or puffery, and for certain do not source it to primary or weak sources. This is a neutral encyclopedia.
 * 4) . Please carefully read the paid editing requirement below, which outlines your obligations under our terms of service.

Hello TechNerd1278. 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 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 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:TechNerd1278. 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. Sam Kuru (talk) 03:33, 12 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for sharing this. I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for these edits. I've been following Carly and her company for years after hearing her speak at several conferences and am looking to get more involved with Wikipedia contributions in my spare time. TechNerd1278 (talk) 16:26, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Can you walk me through your addition here? You've added a posed copyrighted image, with the claim it's your own work, and attempted to release it under a broader license. You've also added incredibly promotional material, and personal information about the subject with no source. You've also left out any negative coverage and included a very non-neutral description of that lawsuit. I'm not sure I'm clear on the nature of your conflict of interest, but just claiming to be a fan does not line up with your edits. Sam Kuru (talk) 23:55, 12 March 2024 (UTC)