User talk:Truecost

August 2023
Hello Truecost. 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 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:Truecost. 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. 331dot (talk) 15:40, 23 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I am not being compensated for edits. I'm a new user, making a variety of edits on topics of interest, some based on professional knowledge, and others including my hometown, for instance. Truecost (talk) 16:18, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * You don't need to be specifically compensated for edits to be a paid editor- any paid or compensated relationship(it doesn't have to be money) triggers the Terms of Use requirement to disclose. Otherwise almost every paid editor would deny being specifically paid for edits. Are you employed by Fraction? 331dot (talk) 16:22, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I understand, but no I don't receive compensation from Fraction or any other company or organization I have referenced in my edits. Truecost (talk) 16:28, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay. So you aren't employed by Fraction? 331dot (talk) 16:30, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Correct Truecost (talk) 17:32, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your direct answer. So you were just strolling down the street in your local area and chose them to edit about? 331dot (talk) 17:42, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * No, I'm interested in fractional work myself and the company sponsors initiatives here in the Atlanta Tech Village, including a program for emerging founders. I think that makes the company notable, but I'm not sure what the standards are for that. Truecost (talk) 19:14, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The standards for a notable company are written here. 331dot (talk) 19:17, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:HireFraction
Hello, Truecost. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:HireFraction, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 17:06, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:HireFraction


Hello, Truecost. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "HireFraction".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 17:32, 23 February 2024 (UTC)