AmeliaHawneyBenchmark

July 2024

Hello AmeliaHawneyBenchmark. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:AmeliaHawneyBenchmark. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=AmeliaHawneyBenchmark|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:02, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi,

Please can you help, my edits to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence and Simon Moores have all been removed. I'm not sure I understand what I have to do to get them back. Was all of my content deleted due to the message here? AmeliaHawneyBenchmark (talk) 06:51, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Paid editing

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:AmeliaHawneyBenchmark, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=AmeliaHawneyBenchmark|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Theroadislong (talk) 07:16, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Apologies, I did not make any further edits since receiving this message. So i thought i would have the chance to save my work so that i could make different edits and suggestions. Is there any way I can access the page's previous content so that i can try again now that I know?

And i am confused about how to disclose this, so have been trying to figure it out in the mean time AmeliaHawneyBenchmark (talk) 08:32, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes, there is a "View history" button near the top of the page, next to the edit button. You can click any of the timestamps to view the page as it existed right after the edit it is attached to was made. For example, here is a direct link to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence's page history, and here is a direct link to that page just before it was reverted back to the prior version.

Looks like you have figured out how to make the disclosure. Tollens (talk) 08:40, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your guidance, I will try to give it another go in a way that is neutral AmeliaHawneyBenchmark (talk) 08:42, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Please take the advice above and use the talk page instead (you can submit an edit request very easily here). While you can just try again, there is a very good chance that your work will not be kept if you edit the page directly. Tollens (talk) 08:44, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Ok thank you! AmeliaHawneyBenchmark (talk) 08:50, 25 July 2024 (UTC)