User talk:TechProInfo
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Speedy deletion nomination of IBuyXS
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A tag has been placed on IBuyXS, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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April 2023
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Hello TechProInfo. 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.
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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:TechProInfo. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=TechProInfo|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. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 21:52, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, Fancy Refrigerator.
- Thank you for reaching out. I appreciate your contributions and dedication to maintaining Wikipedia!
- According to the Wikipedia Foundation Terms of Use:
- "If you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit (your "employer"), who the client is, and any other relevant role or relationship."
- Moreover, according to Wikipedia Paid-contributions disclosure:
- "You must make that disclosure in
- at least one
- of the following ways:
- a statement on your user page,
- a statement on the talk page accompanying any paid contributions, or
- a statement in the edit summary accompanying any paid contributions."
- When publishing the iBuyXS article, I posted the text below on its Talk page:
- "Disclosure of paid contribution:
- Per the Wikipedia paid-contribution disclosure policy, I am stating on the user talk page of said article, that the creator and author of the iBuyXS Wikipedia page is an employee of iBuyXS LLC.
- This article was written without bias. Third-party references were used in conjunction with information found on the company’s website.
- Any and all contributions are welcome as per the nature and policy of the Wikipedia platform."
- Wikipedia's guidelines were referenced throughout the creation of this article and I would like to republish. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for being open to discuss. TechProInfo (talk) 15:48, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Well, "This article was written without bias" is not correct: the article was highly promotional. Drmies (talk) 15:50, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, Drmies!
- Thanks for weighing in. I referenced similar articles on Wikipedia and modeled their layout and information, in hopes that the iBuyXS page would not be deleted. Both large and small tech companies.
- I also added information in the final paragraph from a third-party source(s), presenting a neutral opinion on the state of the industry.
- Please le me know, if there's anything further I can do. I would gladly delete any info that reads biased. TechProInfo (talk) 16:00, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Well, "This article was written without bias" is not correct: the article was highly promotional. Drmies (talk) 15:50, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
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