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Conflict of interest editing

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 07:48, 16 September 2021 (UTC)Reply


Dear Melcous,

I work for Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust. The edits were performed to correct the links and service activities of the Trust. While editing, would like to assure you that no advertising or falsification of information was done. May I request You to refer to the changes and suggest best way possible to show the right website links and details of Trust. We also external news articles to justify the content put across.

Kindly do let me know your thoughts over the same

Best Regards, Venkat

Thank you for your response Venkat. As you work for the Trust, you are a paid editor for this purpose. This means you must do two things:
  1. Disclose this on your user page and/or the talk pages of the relevant articles
  2. Do not edit the articles directly - instead you should use the Template:Request edit to request changes, making sure to provide reliable, independent, secondary sources to verify what you are suggesting be changed or added.
Thank you Melcous (talk) 10:08, 16 September 2021 (UTC)Reply


Dear Melcous,

I have created the User Page now and will submit the changes to edit the article.

Best Regards, Venkat