User talk:Richard Dotx
June 2025
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Hello Richard Dotx. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Raja Rani Coaching, 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:Richard Dotx. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Richard Dotx|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. Sam Kuru (talk) 13:20, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Hello @Kuru
- I would like to clarify that I am not connected with Raja Rani Coaching in any direct or indirect way. I am not being compensated for my edits, nor do I have any affiliation with the organization.
- I came across Raja Rani Coaching through its feature on national television, specifically on SET India and Shark Tank India, and I found it to be an interesting subject worth documenting on Wikipedia.
- My intention in drafting the article was purely voluntary and interest-based. I am still gathering more reliable and independent sources to enhance the draft and ensure compliance with Wikipedia's standards.
- For your reference, here are the national television appearances I mentioned:
Please do not attempt to make unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been disallowed by an edit filter. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. 14:56, 24 June 2025 (UTC) – PharyngealImplosive7 (talk) 14:56, 24 June 2025 (UTC)