User talk:Jonas Borchgrevink
August 2019
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Hello Jonas Borchgrevink. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.
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, and if it does not, 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:Jonas Borchgrevink. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jonas Borchgrevink|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. Yunshui 雲水 07:02, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Your username
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Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Jonas Borchgrevink", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because a username which might be seen by others as representing a specific identifiable person (e.g. the founder of company which is the subject of a drft for a Wikipedia article like Draft:CCN Markets) may only be used if its truly your real name per WP:REALNAME. Even if it's your real name, your account may still be soft-blocked as a precaution against damaging impersonation until your identity can be verified. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:50, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
- If you want to avoid any misunderstanding about your choice of username but have no desire to change your username, then you can send an email to Wikimedia OTRS verifying your identity. You should use an official email address (e.g. an official company email address) if possible because free email providers like Gmail, etc. make veifiction that much harder. If everything is in order, an OTRS volunteer will add the template {{Verified account}} to your userpage and you should have no further problems (at least not about your username). This still, however, would not resolve the paid contribution or COI editing concerns raised above in #August 2019; but it will make it clear that when others are discussing things with you that they are actually discussing things with you and not someone pretending to be you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:55, 5 August 2019 (UTC)