User talk:BenSteain

OpenQRM

Hello. Welcome to Wikipedia, unfortunately one or more of your recent contributions to OpenQRM have been reverted. Even though I’m sure this edit was made in good-faith, it contains too much detailed technical information, remember this is an encyclopaedia. Please see WP:NOTMANUAL for more information.

A copy of your edit is available on the article’s edit history. For more general advice on editing see the Contributing to Wikipedia page.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on my talk page. Thank you.

AussieWikiDan ^(talk) 09:06, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The content you added was copied from another website, and thus was a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Please don't add copyright material to Wikipedia. — Diannaa (talk) 14:26, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

October 2020

Hello BenSteain. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to OpenQRM, 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 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:BenSteain. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BenSteain|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. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:02, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My Disclosure

Hello

Apologies for the violation, I was unaware of such policy.

I have made the disclosure on my User Page, and I am officially confirming that I'm being paid to make these contributions.

BenSteain (talk) 00:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OpenQRM

Hi BenSteain. I reverted some of your recent edits to the OpenQRM. My suggest to you would be follow the advice given in WP:COIADVICE and WP:PSCOI#Steps for engagement and refrain from directly editing the article as much as possible. The citation you added was probably OK, but all of the other detailed information and tables you added are things that it would be better to be WP:CAUTIOUS about and propose on the article's talk page using edit requests. Your edit introduced a number of MOS:MOS errors and the tone of some parts was rather promotional sounding. It would really be better to have others assess the changes you want to make on the article's talk page first; so, I've asked the members of WikiProject software to take a look at the article to see if they might be able to out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:36, 6 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]