User talk:Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte

March 2024
Hello Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Wolf Theiss, 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:Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte. 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. Annh07 (talk) 11:36, 11 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Dear Annh07,
 * Thank you for your message and for highlighting the concerns regarding the edits I made to the Wolf Theiss Wikipedia page. I would like to clarify that my intention was not to promote the company in any commercial or advertising manner. My edits were driven by the need to correct what I perceived as misleading, potentially offensive, and factually incorrect statements present on the English Wikipedia page.
 * The German-language version of the page offers a more detailed historical and factual representation of Wolf Theiss, which I believe adheres more closely to Wikipedia's standards for accuracy and neutrality. My goal was to align the English page content with the German version to ensure consistency and factual correctness across both language versions.
 * As this is my first time editing on Wikipedia, I admit that I might not be fully versed in the best practices and procedures for making such corrections. I genuinely seek to improve the page's content while adhering to Wikipedia's guidelines and maintaining its integrity. Therefore, I would greatly appreciate your guidance and support on how best to proceed in this matter.
 * If direct editing by someone in my position is discouraged, I'm open to learning about alternative methods, such as proposing changes on the talk page or through the articles for creation process, as you suggested.
 * I assure you that my actions were taken with the best intentions to contribute positively to the Wikipedia community, and I am committed to transparency and compliance with all Wikipedia policies, including those regarding conflict of interest and paid editing.
 * Thank you for your understanding and looking forward to your advice on the correct way forward.
 * Best regards,
 * Nadja Gerlich (Wolf Theiss) Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte (talk) 11:43, 11 March 2024 (UTC)