User talk:TireWheelGuy

March 2020
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April 2020
Hello TireWheelGuy. 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 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, and if it does not, 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:TireWheelGuy. 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. ''I noticed your very first contribution was inserting link to https://tirewheelguide.com/ and given the user name I am wondering if you may have an affiliation with the website. '' Graywalls (talk) 17:42, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Graywalls! I am not affiliated with this website and not being compensated for my edits. I work in the tire shop and we all(me and my co-workers) use that website to find info about car tire and wheel specs. I'm not going to post any info about the tire shop I work in, so there is no need to provide any disclosure, right? TireWheelGuy (talk) 15:27, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for clarifying the situation. Wikipedia has guidelines on self published sources, user generated contents and reliable sources which should be informative to read through. The website which looks like a compilation of information from another information (such as the commercial database used by shops) compiled by some guys and I would consider that site to be not appropriate for inclusion, which reads: "Some posts may contain affiliate links. tirewheelguide.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. TireWheelGuide.com is made by a team of enthusiasts who has more than 10 years of experience in the tire industry" Graywalls (talk) 18:14, 9 April 2020 (UTC)