User talk:Karo Hugs

Welcome!

Hi, Karo Hugs. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or . Csgir (talk) 12:21, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

December 2019

Hello Karo Hugs. 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 Sisley (company), 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:Karo Hugs. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Karo Hugs|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. Csgir (talk) 12:21, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sisley (company)

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A tag has been placed on Sisley (company), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Reply to Csgir and Discospinster

Hello, and Best Wishes for the New Year!

I'm sorry that my creation of the page about the French company Sisley seemed to be in breach of Wikipedia rules, I certainly hadn't realised that it might be.

I am in no way linked with the company, but was asked, and indeed paid a small fee, by a translation agency to translate and publish the company's Wikipedia page from the French site, which also apparently exists in German and Russian, without seeming to contravene any rules there. I will proceed directly to declare this link.

But could you please indicate which elements of the proposed page struck you as too commercial, so that I might remove them, leaving what I can of the content? As I said, all of the content was taken from an existing French Wikipedia page.

Many thanks for your guidance.