User talk:KieranMO

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited 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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December 2024

Hello KieranMO. 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 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:KieranMO. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=KieranMO|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) 15:56, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi 331dot, I am indeed an employee of Motability Operations Ltd and as such, I've added the disclaimer to my user page. I hope that's sufficient. Do let me know if I can edit further and I'll update any sources that link to the company website.

Thanks KieranMO (talk) 15:59, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for making the disclosure.

Please understand that Wikipedia is not a place for companies to tell about themselves and what they do. As I stated, Wikipedia wants to know what independent reliable sources say about a company and what makes it a notable company. I get that you probably think that what your company does is important, and it may even be so- but we need independent sources that say that. You should first have the independent sources in hand and then summarize what they say- not take what you've written and look for independent sources to support it. See WP:BACKWARD. You will need to set aside everything you know about your company and all materials it puts out(press releases, staff interviews, brief mentions, announcements of routine business activities).

I might suggest that you read WP:BOSS, and, if you've been asked to be here, have your superiors read it too. 331dot (talk) 16:08, 6 December 2024 (UTC)