User talk:AlexEmberTV

September 2019

Hello AlexEmberTV. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:AlexEmberTV. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=AlexEmberTV|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. Yunshui ^雲_水 18:03, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

@Yunshui: Hello. As you can probably see, I have not been a Wikipedia account holder for long, and I'm unaware of all the standards and practices of the site. As stated in the edit that I made on the Ember Television page, I am an employee of that company and I have been instructed by my boss to request for the page to be deleted. Does this qualify for being "directly or indirectly compensated" for edits? For full disclosure, I do not intend to and have no interest in editing any other articles on the site. Any advice regarding how I should proceed going forward would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.AlexEmberTV (talk) 11:07, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

If you are employed by the subject of an article and you are editing in relation to that article, you are a paid editor, and you need to comply with the policy at WP:PAID. This is not optional; the requirements for disclosure are part of the Terms of Use that you agreed to when you created an account.

The subject of an article has no say in whether or not that article remains on Wikipedia. Speedy deletion (for a valid reason) has already be declined for the article in question. You may if you wish pursue deletion via Articles for deletion. However, the ultimate decision as to whether the article should be kept or not will be made by Wikipedia's community of editors, not by representatives of your company. Yunshui ^雲_水 11:31, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

@Yunshui: Thank you for your help. AlexEmberTV (talk) 14:04, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

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