User talk:Wowbagger7171

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October 2022
Hello, I'm Adakiko. I noticed that you made an edit to a biography of a living person, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Adakiko (talk) 00:12, 27 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Fully understand, and I have all the links, but it's going to take me a day or two... Wowbagger7171 (talk) 00:16, 27 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I would recommend you format them on your sandbox page: user:Wowbagger7171/sandbox. There is a tool in the standard Wiki editor which will help format citations. See wp:citing sources. It uses wp:templates cite web, cite journal (for magazines too), cite news, and cite book (click on for overwhelming documentation). Cheers Adakiko (talk) 00:24, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

November 2022
Hello Wowbagger7171. 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:Wowbagger7171. 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) 01:18, 29 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Ollie,
 * You're correct that I am employed by Cadence Design Systems, but I'm not compensated to advocate for executives and BOD members on Wikipedia. I'm new to the company, and took it upon myself to update Anirudh's and Alberto's Wiki pages because as I was researching this employer, I happened to notice that both resources were incomplete, poorly formatted and poorly written (you should take a look at their original state), and in some cases had 'written like a resume' flagged on them by the community.  The updates I made were written in a professional, detached, and footnoted encyclopedic style, and since then, the Wikipedia community is no longer flagging those pages as biased. Most of the work was done on my own time, late in the evening. I can understand your concern about paid Wikipedia writers, but being employed by a company, and being a professional communicator is not the same as being employed by a company to advocate on Wikipedia.
 * If you have an issue with what I've written, please let me know. Also, I've submitted a permission letter to use the photo of Anirudh to the system - not sure why his photo is being flagged as a copyright violation.
 * Many thanks,
 * Chris Wowbagger7171 (talk) 04:37, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * You are splitting hairs that the Wikipedia community does not split - you need to comply with the paid editing disclosures and the conflict of interest guidelines if you want to edit Wikipedia any further. That you edited a low-traffic page and no one immediately noticed and tagged your edits as biased does not in fact mean that your edits were not biased - on the contrary, they were plainly promotional in nature. MrOllie (talk) 13:35, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Happy to do so. 73.116.96.186 (talk) 16:24, 30 November 2022 (UTC)