User talk:Vikenbauer

November 2023
Hello Vikenbauer. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Avature, 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:Vikenbauer. 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. SmartSE (talk) 12:24, 24 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, Smartse.
 * I'm not being directly or indirectly, in any way, compensated for this edits, nor do I expect any compensation for them in a near or distant future. I work for Avature as a software engineer, and my colleagues from marketing asked me to help them filling those references, as those have been deleted and I had some experience editing and correcting some pages in the Wikipedia.
 * Anyway, as I said at the beginning of this message, I'm not receiving nor I'm going to receive any compensation for this, except the satisfaction of helping my colleagues to fill the page they're trying to do. I make my living developing software, not editing Wikipedia.
 * If you have any questions, please ask me and I'll be happy to answer. Vikenbauer (talk) 17:38, 27 November 2023 (UTC)