User talk:Ah2023unicorn

September 2024

Hello Ah2023unicorn. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Wealth One Bank of Canada, 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:Ah2023unicorn. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ah2023unicorn|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. Amigao (talk) 17:00, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Amigao,

Thank you for your message. I am an official employee of Wealth One Bank of Canada managing marketing communication. Over the past few years, we have updated our mission and vision to reflect that we now serve all Canadians, not just Chinese Canadians. In fact, this specific client group now represents only a small portion of our overall customer base.

The edits I made aim to reflect the bank's current targets and strategy, which are also outlined on our official website and social media platforms. Please let me know if you require me to include the "paid" code on my page and if I should continue editing the profile, thank you. Ah2023unicorn (talk) 19:04, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

@Ah2023unicorn: Yes, you are required to disclose your employment with this company. Please place the {{paid}} template on your userpage (User:Ah2023unicorn).

You should also review the process to make edit requests. We prefer that you refrain from editing the article directly; instead you should make an edit request at Talk:Wealth One Bank of Canada.

Please also realize that the company does not own or control the content of the Wikipedia article about it. Readers expect plainly factual articles, written independently of their subjects, sourced reliably and neutrally worded. Your edits must be made in the spirit of achieving consensus on what it should say.

The company's social media sites are considered to be self-published sources and therefore unreliable. We expect facts to be verifiable by citing reliable, third-party sources. Company-authored materials are primary sources and can only be used to verify the most basic of facts and figures. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:12, 10 September 2024 (UTC)