User talk:Sophia.angelova

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Hello, Sophia.angelova, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Radan Kanev, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Hello Sophia.angelova. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Radan Kanev, 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:Sophia.angelova. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Sophia.angelova|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. :Jay8g [V•T•E] 18:28, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi,

Thank you for your message and for clarifying the procedure on Wikipedia. While I understand your policy about conflict of interest I am not getting compensation for my work on Radan Kanev's Wikipedia page. Furthermore, as you may have seen in my work the amendments I have incorporated in the text are all backed up by reputable sources, thus the edits solely offer a more comprehensive over of Radan Kanev's career without compromising the neutrality of the statements made. Additionally, all of the information as you can see is backed up by reputable sources.

Please tell me what is the best way to proceed from here and how I can submit the draft to you for proofreading. And if you can provide further clarity on userspace drafts and if I need to submit it through there first, and what is the process until it moves to the Encyclopedia and how long that would take.

Thanks again for the feedback and all of the information. Eager to hear back from you! Sophia.angelova (talk) 11:12, 6 November 2024 (UTC)