Ateeb Ali Syed

October 2024

Hello Ateeb Ali Syed. 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 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:Ateeb Ali Syed. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ateeb Ali Syed|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. 331dot (talk) 14:51, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

I have not editted anything as of yet, but yes I am being paid by the organization. The edits though are not against the wikipedia guidelines, they are rather about their detailed history, services, address and office locations, awards they recived. Ateeb Ali Syed (talk) 18:34, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Okay, then you are required by the Terms of Use to make the paid editing disclosure. Please follow the instructions provided above. 331dot (talk) 18:47, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, And I ahve to submit the edits to the talk page of the article? after that if all of the content and images are unbiased and informational, how much time will it take to publish? Ateeb Ali Syed (talk) 21:54, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes, you should request edits on the talk page as edit requests.(there is a edit request wizard which may help) We cannot guarantee a timeframe in which your requests will be looked at by volunteers, but you can increase the chances of a speedy response by proposing incremental changes, one or two at a time. Don't propose a wholesale rewrite or other large change that will require a volunteer to invest a lot of their time. 331dot (talk) 22:14, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Got it, Thanks. And for the images should I upload them on wikipedia common first, and then use them? and should I declare first at my user page about being paid? or after I make an edit? Ateeb Ali Syed (talk) 22:36, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

If you actually took the images, and want to release them for use by anyone for any purpose, you may upload them to Commons. Its possible, but harder, to upload to Commons if you didn't take the image. You would then need to show that the copyright is explicitly compatible with Wikipedia's.

Yes, you should make the paid disclosure before you propose edits. 331dot (talk) 00:28, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks 103.235.78.201 (talk) 22:13, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

The above pre-written message is for information and instructions only. 331dot (talk) 14:52, 14 October 2024 (UTC)