Kursant504

March 2023

Hello Kursant504. 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:Kursant504. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kursant504|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. MarioGom (talk) 17:48, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

I see you have a paid editing disclosure at Russian Wikipedia ([1]): note that you have to disclose which exact contributions are paid, who is the final client, and any intermediaries. Best, MarioGom (talk) 17:48, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

According to the current rules, I am not obliged to specify which contribution in ru-wiki is paid.Kursant504 (talk) 23:30, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

This is not true. You have previously indicated that you were paid to edit about the war in Ukraine, and the propaganda term you use "Special Military Operation" may reveal the nature and focus of your contribution. ·Carn·!? 08:10, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Can you tell me more: on what basis did you decide that I am making any changes for payment in en-wiki? Kursant504 (talk) 23:32, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

I don't know, since you disclosed you've received payments but did not specify the contributions. That's why I'm asking. This applies to all Wikimedia projects, since it's part of the global Terms of Use: you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. Best, MarioGom (talk) 08:31, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

This does not apply to all Wikimedia projects. I ask again: why do you think that I making any changes for payment in en-wiki? Or you just write such text to all random users? Kursant504 (talk) 12:21, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Again, as I explained initially, I'm asking because you have a paid editing disclosure without specifying the contributions, so I don't know if you made changes for payment in enwiki or not. That's why I posted here the standard warning first, and a follow up explanation on why I posted it. To your last question: yes, I do write these messages to many users whenever there are incomplete disclosures. You're free to ignore this, of course. MarioGom (talk) 13:19, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

So you can see that I completed the minimum required by the rules [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/FAQ_on_paid_contributions_without_disclosure#Do_I_have_to_disclose_the_details_of_the_compensation_I_am_receiving?]: disclose my client. And administrators of ru-wiki had confirmed this when I had a discussion about my paid editing. And your personal opinion that all paid edits should be specifically designated - I consider it a your free interpretation of the rules. Kursant504 (talk) 04:36, 14 March 2023 (UTC)