User talk:Brewingbeer

October 2019

Hello Brewingbeer. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Draft:Nina Bal‎, 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:Brewingbeer. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Brewingbeer|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. Vexations (talk) 13:11, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@vexations - I am being paid to edit. However, I was under the impression that I am supposed to disclose those once I submit a page for review. I have no intention of violating the policies. I am still learning the ropes and going forward will disclose it at the start. I am updating the paid edits disclosure immediately Brewingbeer (talk) 13:20, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As per WP:Paid can you please provide links on your Wikipedia user page to all active accounts at websites where you advertise paid Wikipedia-editing services e.g. your Upwork account etc. GSS (talk|c|em) 13:21, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Brewingbeer, the instructions are in the links I provided. The terms of use of the Wikimedia Foundation: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use clearly state that you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation This does not come into effect only after you submit a page for review. You must do this now. Please be aware that using multiple accounts deceptively, as the creator of the article has done, is not allowed. If you are the same person, the block applies to you. Vexations (talk) 13:45, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@GSS I don't have an account on Upwork. Do I need to? I am a freelance content writer looking to take up Wikipedia edits for my current clients since content is my specialization. I am not sure I am following the requirements. Could you please help? Brewingbeer (talk) 13:29, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How and where you were hired by Nina Bal? GSS (talk|c|em) 13:30, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have been writing content for her for a while (websites, blogs etc). She asked if I could also help with Wikipedia. I have been working with her for over 2 years. Brewingbeer (talk) 13:33, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This account has been blocked indefinitely as a sock puppet that was created to violate Wikipedia policy. Note that using multiple accounts is allowed, but using them for illegitimate reasons is not, and that all edits made while evading a block or ban may be reverted or deleted. If this account is not a sock puppet, and you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here ~~~~}} below. Yunshui ^雲 _水 07:26, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]