User talk:Abbey c zollo
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May 2023[edit]
Hello Abbey c zollo. 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:Abbey c zollo. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Abbey c zollo|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. Seraphimblade Talk to me 17:37, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hello! My apologies, I added the disclosure to my user page. I am the Public Relations Communications Coordinator at Perception, and made the Perception Wikipedia page on behalf of my company. If there are any further disclosures or updates that I can make, please let me know and I will do so immediately! Abbey c zollo (talk) 18:15, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- The disclosure is fine. However, please keep in mind that you will also need to follow the conflict of interest requirements, chiefly that you should not create or add any mainspace material where you have a COI, but rather put it up for review by an editor who doesn't have a conflict of interest. For creation of a new article, this would mean creating a draft and requesting review by articles for creation, rather than creating it directly in mainspace as you did before. And if another editor does something like convert it to a redirect, you certainly must not just revert that without discussion, as you also previously did. Seraphimblade Talk to me 18:27, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, thank you so much for the information. This was my first time interacting with new content material and I was not aware of the requirements. That is entirely my fault. I'll refrain from doing any main page edits in the future or editing redirects. My deepest apologies on everything. Is there any way that the content we wrote before for Perception can be reinstated, as the page was deleted? Or if I can receive a copy to propose for a draft review request, as you mentioned? Abbey c zollo (talk) 18:31, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- I don't restore advertisements, and really there's not much salvageable in there anyway—the whole thing was talking up the company and full of puff ("Emmy-nominated", "pioneering the visionary process", "architect the future of film and global technology brands", "cutting-edge", "visually captivating"), and just on and on like that. Articles should be neutral in both tone and content, and just present facts verified by reliable and independent sources without the "talking up". That said, if you would like the sources that were used in the deleted article, I will provide you those. Let me know if you would. Seraphimblade Talk to me 23:28, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, got it. Thank you for the update. I plan to submit a new draft for consideration with a more neutral tone, now that I better understand the requirements for pages. Can I do this to the existing blank Perception page, or would I need to make a new one? I received a note that I would need to consult you first prior to trying to edit or add information to the page. Abbey c zollo (talk) 23:59, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- So, in case the above wasn't clear, you would first need to create a draft at Draft:Perception (visual effects company), and then use the process detailed at the information on articles for creation to submit your draft for review by a non-COI editor. Seraphimblade Talk to me 06:04, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, got it. Thank you for the update. I plan to submit a new draft for consideration with a more neutral tone, now that I better understand the requirements for pages. Can I do this to the existing blank Perception page, or would I need to make a new one? I received a note that I would need to consult you first prior to trying to edit or add information to the page. Abbey c zollo (talk) 23:59, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- I don't restore advertisements, and really there's not much salvageable in there anyway—the whole thing was talking up the company and full of puff ("Emmy-nominated", "pioneering the visionary process", "architect the future of film and global technology brands", "cutting-edge", "visually captivating"), and just on and on like that. Articles should be neutral in both tone and content, and just present facts verified by reliable and independent sources without the "talking up". That said, if you would like the sources that were used in the deleted article, I will provide you those. Let me know if you would. Seraphimblade Talk to me 23:28, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, thank you so much for the information. This was my first time interacting with new content material and I was not aware of the requirements. That is entirely my fault. I'll refrain from doing any main page edits in the future or editing redirects. My deepest apologies on everything. Is there any way that the content we wrote before for Perception can be reinstated, as the page was deleted? Or if I can receive a copy to propose for a draft review request, as you mentioned? Abbey c zollo (talk) 18:31, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- The disclosure is fine. However, please keep in mind that you will also need to follow the conflict of interest requirements, chiefly that you should not create or add any mainspace material where you have a COI, but rather put it up for review by an editor who doesn't have a conflict of interest. For creation of a new article, this would mean creating a draft and requesting review by articles for creation, rather than creating it directly in mainspace as you did before. And if another editor does something like convert it to a redirect, you certainly must not just revert that without discussion, as you also previously did. Seraphimblade Talk to me 18:27, 16 May 2023 (UTC)