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Hello EWChristine. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.
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, and if it does not, 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:EWChristine. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=EWChristine|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message.
- Hi there. You are correct that I am paid. I disclose this on my user page and on the pages of the draft articles where I am seeking editor review. I assume you are referencing the tweak I just made to one of these DRAFT articles? It was not an edit to the site itself. I had assumed since I wrote the not yet published draft that making an edit to my proposed revision would be ok and the existing disclosure would suffice. Sounds like I was wrong. I will go back in and use the additional disclosure template you request. Thanks for taking the time to reach out.EWChristine (talk) 04:16, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
- @John from Idegon: I have added disclosure templates to the User:EWChristine/Jay Sures and User:EWChristine/David Kramer (talent agent) draft pages. I believe templates have been added to all appropriate talk pages, too, but please let me know otherwise. Thanks, EWChristine (talk) 19:34, 3 August 2018 (UTC)