Midnight teal
April 2023
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Hello Midnight teal. 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:Midnight teal. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Midnight teal|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. bonadea contributions talk 10:39, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
- Hello - so I work for EssenceMediacom and worked for MediaCom before it merged into EssenceMediacom in January of this year. So I am an employee, but am not being directly compensated for creating a page on Wikipedia. If that makes sense? I would simply like to retrieve the old content from MediaCom's page before it was deleted which has various timeline detail about key events in its history from when MediaCom first started up until now. As we would like to create a new EssenceMediacom page which is informative about who Essence were, who MediaCom were and who EssenceMediacom now is. Hope this makes sense and this type of content is not breaking any Wikipedia rules. Thanks. Midnight teal (talk) 15:25, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
- Being an employee of the company and editing Wikipedia on the company's behalf is a form of paid editing, even if you are not specifically paid for your edits. Please make the required disclosures, and be careful not to edit any Wikipedia articles about EssenceMediacom directly – you can create a new draft and submit it for review, however. You should also avoid using any sources published by the company or their representatives since Wikipedia is not really interested in what a company says about themselves, and sources that are not independent and secondary don't show notability. --bonadea contributions talk 09:59, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
- Specifically, you must read and understand WP:PAID and place the {{paid}} template on your user page as directed above. Failure to comply may lead to being blocked from editing. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:18, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
- Being an employee of the company and editing Wikipedia on the company's behalf is a form of paid editing, even if you are not specifically paid for your edits. Please make the required disclosures, and be careful not to edit any Wikipedia articles about EssenceMediacom directly – you can create a new draft and submit it for review, however. You should also avoid using any sources published by the company or their representatives since Wikipedia is not really interested in what a company says about themselves, and sources that are not independent and secondary don't show notability. --bonadea contributions talk 09:59, 21 April 2023 (UTC)