User talk:Lubham13

January 2024[edit]

Hello, I'm Justlettersandnumbers. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, António Simões (executive), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:29, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lubham13. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Legal & General, 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 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 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:Lubham13. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Lubham13|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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:38, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please note also that Wikipedia does not tolerate PROMOTION of any kind. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:45, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Thanks for placing a paid-editor disclosure on your user-page. Please note that:

you are expected to list all affected articles on that page (it looks as if those are L&G, Simões and Wilson for now)
you are expected to disclose your paid interest each and every time you make any edit to those articles or to the relative talk-pages
you are strongly discouraged from making any edit to those articles (though no-one is likely to complain at the reversion of vandalism and the like); in practice, that 'discouragement' frequently takes the form of immediate reversion to the preceding version of the page.

Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:37, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]