User talk:Furston525

January 2023

Hello, I'm LizardJr8. I wanted to let you know that one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to GTT Communications—has been undone because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thank you. LizardJr8 (talk) 04:00, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ok i understand that. Is there any way that you can help me upload the new logo though? it is out of date and the company has rebranded. Furston525 (talk) 04:25, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to GTT Communications. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. LizardJr8 (talk) 04:15, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ok i understand that. Is there any way that you can help me upload the new logo though? it is out of date and the company has rebranded. Furston525 (talk) 04:23, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Furston525. 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:Furston525. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Furston525|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. 331dot (talk) 12:10, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I have now disclosed, that I work for GTT. I am not being paid to update anything and I am not planning on updating the description either following the information in this message annd 10 others...I just want to upload the new logo so the profile picture matches the actual logo since the company has since rebranded. Furston525 (talk) 19:36, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, that is sufficient. Note that "paid editing" is not limited to specific payment for edits, and includes employment(such as what you disclosed). 331dot (talk) 20:21, 13 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]