== May 2024 ==

[[File:Information.svg|left|25px|alt=Information icon]] Hello Tencerpr. 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 [[Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure|mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements]]. Paid advocacy is a category of [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|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 [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]] and what [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|Wikipedia is not]], and is an especially serious type of COI; the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to [[Spamdexing|black-hat search-engine optimization]].

Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the [[Help:Talk pages|talk page]] of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|articles for creation]] process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are '''<u>required</u> by the [[wmf:TOU#paid-contrib-disclosure|Wikimedia Terms of Use]] to disclose your employer, client and affiliation.''' You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at [[User:Tencerpr]]. The template {{tl|Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{tlc|paid|2=user=Tencerpr|3=employer=<var>InsertName</var>|4=client=<var>InsertName</var>}}. 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. <!-- Template:Uw-paid1 --> [[User:DoubleGrazing|DoubleGrazing]] ([[User talk:DoubleGrazing|talk]]) 09:42, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

[[File:Information orange.svg|left|25px|alt=Information icon]] As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure|mandatory paid editing disclosure]] requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the '''mandatory requirements under the [[wmf:TOU#paid-contrib-disclosure|Wikimedia Terms of Use]] that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation.''' Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at [[User:Tencerpr]], and the template {{tl|Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{tlc|paid|2=user=Tencerpr|3=employer=<var>InsertName</var>|4=client=<var>InsertName</var>}}. Please '''respond before making any other edits''' to Wikipedia. <!-- Template:Uw-paid2 --> [[User:DoubleGrazing|DoubleGrazing]] ([[User talk:DoubleGrazing|talk]]) 16:08, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

:If you wish to argue that you are not a paid editor, you do that by responding to this query on your talk page, not by removing related maintenance templates from drafts or by otherwise reverting edits without a cause. -- [[User:DoubleGrazing|DoubleGrazing]] ([[User talk:DoubleGrazing|talk]]) 16:10, 16 May 2024 (UTC)