User talk:Jerabotto
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November 2024
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Hello Jerabotto. 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:Jerabotto. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jerabotto|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. Bilby (talk) 11:16, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
My apologies for not adding this earlier. I had assumed that you were warned in regard to ORBIS, but it seems that you weren't. I should have checked more carefully. - Bilby (talk) 11:17, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- Good morning, and first of all, thank you for your response. Actually, I've been enjoying contributing to Wikipedia for some time now, and just a couple of months ago, I decided to create an account because I was getting the hang of it and seeing that my edits were going well. After making several edits and gaining a better understanding of how the platform works, including the technical aspects, I tried to create the page for ORBIS Production because it is quite well known in my field, and seeing pages like Martha Production, Indiana Production or The Gunther Corporation, ORBIS seemed to fit well with the existing contents. I probably got carried away with enthusiasm, and I apologize for that. I created Mario Orfeo also, and I'm working on Satellite Lovers and Yoni Assia drafts too. I’m sorry if my behavior may have raised any doubts, but no one is paying me for this, nor do I know the people connected to my edits. Jerabotto (talk) 11:38, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, but that does not really work. I don't think that you just randomly decided to to create ORBIS - it is clearly the result of being paid. And this, in turn, raises concerns with all of your edits.
- It is possible to edit Wikipedia while being paid. The main thing is that you need to be open about your paid edits and disclose the employer and client, as explained above. If you do that, and clearly state when you are making paid edits to articles (on the talk page or in the edit summaries) it can work. It is never easy, as a lot of people here are opposed to paid editing and that brings extra scuritny, but some editors have been able to make progress. - Bilby (talk) 01:38, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, and thank you again for your responses. If this is your idea, I don't think there's anything I can do to convince you otherwise, so I won’t try any further. I imagine there are countless cases on the platform. However, I’m in a difficult position right now: I can’t understand how I should proceed. Apparently, the only way forward is to be forced to admit—according to your version—that I was paid to create the ORBIS page and to continue suggesting edits to the entry. For the other pages, though, would I be "free". And what if I haven’t been paid? Maybe it would be better for me to start with another account at this point? It's such a pity lose all my works here. Jerabotto (talk) 08:22, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Bilby, just to be clear, I’m not making any more contributions on Wikipedia simply because I’m afraid of unintentionally damaging other pages. I’m still waiting for your feedback. Jerabotto (talk) 08:15, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.
If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:
- Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
- State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
- Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.
- I am very sorry, in that I was hoping you would give me another option. Unfortunately, that proved not to be the case. - Bilby (talk) 11:32, 24 November 2024 (UTC)