EmmaHigg

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August 2020

Hello EmmaHigg. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Lalaland (company), 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:EmmaHigg. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=EmmaHigg|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. You make the mandatory ten edits to random pages from August 13–17 then wait a few days to upload a logo in a higher resolution than is available on the company's website, and then create the article once you're WP:autoconfirmed. That is exactly what we see paid editors do. Vexations (talk) 12:35, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for your message! I want to respond that I am not a paid editor or associated with the company Lalaland. I study AI here in the Netherlands and have noticed that there is not much information about the many AI companies we have here in this country. I wanted to start providing more information about this industry on Wikipedia and chose the company Lalaland because they most recently won the Philips Innovation awards, so I thought it would be a relevant entry. I did contact the company to ask if I could make a page about them as my first venture into Wikipedia editing and they said yes and sent me a logo.

My apologies if this was not the right way to go about it. If there is anything I should be doing differently I would really appreciate any advice as I try to join the Wikipedia community! EmmaHigg (talk) 14:40, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Since you contacted the company, you have a conflict of interest that you should formally disclose. Typically, an article is written without the knowledge of the subject. They cannot grant or deny permission for someone to write about them on Wikipedia, as Wikipedia summarizes what independent reliable sources state. 331dot (talk) 14:45, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Okay I was not aware of that, thank you for letting me know. Are there any steps I should make going forward? I want to be able to make articles, such as the one about Lalaland in the correct way. Are there some revisions I should make to my article? Or do you have any other advice? Thank you for your help! EmmaHigg (talk) 15:57, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

You should make suggestions with regards to the Lalaland article on the article talk page as formal edit requests(click for instructions). If you have no conflict of interest with another article subject, you may edit about it directly; you may use Articles for Creation to create new articles (whether you have a COI or not). 331dot (talk) 18:43, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Lalaland (company) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Lalaland (company) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lalaland (company) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. scope_creep^Talk 18:21, 22 September 2020 (UTC)