User talk:Zelda Zanders

July 2024

Hello Zelda Zanders. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Zelda Zanders. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Zelda Zanders|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. Blanes tree (talk) 21:50, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am not being compensated for my edits. You have admitted to engaging in WP:HOUNDING against multiple editors, myself included, and have had concerns raised about you on both your own talk page and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Please stop hounding me. Zelda Zanders (talk) 00:38, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Zelda Zanders, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I am pleased to present you with your very first service award, in recognition of becoming a Wikipedia contributor.

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Again, welcome! C F A 💬 03:13, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]