User talk:Winbit

May 2022
Hello Winbit. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Kvass, 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:Winbit. 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. MrOllie (talk) 11:48, 1 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Dear MrOllie, thank you for this guidance and clarification about the mandatory disclosure. I have followed your advice and stated this on my page. Indeed, I am one of the co-founder of Quas Drinks in the UK. However, my proposed edits to Kvass did not come from the intention to self-promote or profit. I was trying to contribute to the rapidly evolving Kvass market in the UK without violating any Wikipedia regulations. I have noticed the recently added mention of the UK based company "Brod Kvas" to the Kvass article (by Turaids), however their website or social media channels (Instagram) seem to be no longer active, which might not be very useful to the reader. So the purpose of my edits was to highlight that the Kvass category in the UK is actually evolving. To further avoid self-promotion, in my second edit I replaced the link to the Quas Drinks website with a link to the recent article published in a well recognised UK based Zima Magazine (in Russian).
 * I would greatly appreciate if you could advice how this information could be added the article without violation of any guidance!
 * Kind regards, Winbit (talk) 12:45, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is any way to mention your company in the article - such mentions are inherently promotional. Thanks for pointing out the mention of Brod, I have rephrased that. MrOllie (talk) 13:28, 1 May 2022 (UTC)