Cubanitos13
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October 2020
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Hello Cubanitos13. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Eyeball Records, 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:Cubanitos13. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Cubanitos13|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. Paul Carpenter (talk) 16:03, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
- Paul Carpenter Hello there, please help, I'm unclear on how to resolve the issue, or even how to speak directly with you to address the concern for the page Eyeball Records I can change any of my edits as needed, however the current information posted was already written by me and it was not a complete story or representation. I don't know of anything in my most recent edits that would financially benefit me, but I'm happy to omit or edit whatever it is. What is currently listed on the page was written by me earlier this year. I thought I was helping by adding a more accurate snapshot of the history. Obviously I want to make sure I comply with the rules of wikipedia, since I use it as a information resource regularly myself. hopefully I'm communicating with you correctly by typing in this thread. thank you again. Cubanitos13 (talk) 16:16, 9 October 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cubanitos13 (talk • contribs) 16:14, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
- Read the page linked above about conflict of interest. It clearly and simply addresses how you can address the situation. There are six bullet points near the top of the page that explain it well and Paul Carpenter also stated that you should create a user page and on it, declare your CoI. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:27, 9 October 2020 (UTC)