Language Service

Paid editing

Hello Language Service. 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 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:Language Service. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Language Service|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. Theroadislong (talk) 16:26, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Not at all. I do not require nor ask for compensation for any edits. Nor am I employed by anyone seeking marketing or promotion.

I am asking whether OTHER contributors, experienced contributors, are willing to enter the valid entry for a published author. Language Service (talk) 16:41, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

I would be happy to take a look, but first you would need to provide three really strong, reliable, independent sources that discuss him in significant detail. No blogs, no press releases, no social media. Theroadislong (talk) 18:21, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

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