User talk:GiveMeMyPay

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:43, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! GiveMeMyPay, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:44, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing

Hello GiveMeMyPay. 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 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:GiveMeMyPay. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=GiveMeMyPay|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. Theroadislong (talk) 22:09, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Upon reviewing my edits, it appears that they may inadvertently suggest a violation of licensing rights or imply that they were financially motivated by individuals, institutions, or organizations. I wish to clarify that my edits are primarily intended to enhance the informativeness and consistency of Wikipedia. I undertake these edits without any expectation of compensation, in full compliance with Wikipedia's guidelines, and with utmost objectivity. GiveMeMyPay (talk) 22:23, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]