User talk:Vac2015

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Paid editing

Hello Vac2015. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Interpublic Group of Companies. 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.

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, 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:Vac2015. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Vac2015|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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. – Brianhe (talk) 19:57, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Brianhe. I am not getting paid for these posts, and have been trying to work with wikipedia to get my information updated. I am an employee of IPG, but am only trying to update information that is factually incorrect on the site. Would love some guidance on how to make this as clear as possible. Thank you. VC at Interpublic 20:00, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Since you are an IPG employee, you have a conflict that must be disclosed. Best practice is to use the {{paid}} template (a filled-out example is above) on User:Vac2015, and the {{Connected contributor (paid)}} template on Talk:Interpublic Group of Companies. Same goes for any other Interpublic employees who are editing here, of course. - Brianhe (talk) 20:06, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thank you Brianhe. Appreciate your help/guidance and clarification on this. VC at Interpublic 20:22, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Another best practice is to use {{Request edit}} template on the talkpage of an article when you are connected to its subject. In this case you would use Talk:Interpublic Group of Companies for requests. This way an impartial editor can evaluate what's requested and make changes with less chance of controversy and eventual reversion. - Brianhe (talk) 20:44, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]