Guillon

March 2021

Hello Guillon. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Malibu, California, 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:Guillon. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Guillon|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. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:48, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I am not sure if this is the correct way to respond but this is my statement: "I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits at all". The link that I add to the city of Malibu is a free tool that I spent time creating for the city of Malibu. Also the domain name is owned by myself and website operated by me, not by any third party.

Did the city pay you for creating it? Magnolia677 (talk) 18:01, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Absolutely not. No one neither pays nor paid me for this. Jean Guillon 08:51, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

You added this site to Malibu, California. You're charging business $10.00 to use your site. Magnolia677 (talk) 15:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

It is an option. Anyone can register for free. The difference is that one who wants to pay more is listed higher. Everyone with a business related to Malibu is added. No difference. Jean Guillon 15:50, 31 March 2021 (UTC)