User talk:Laundromat101

March 2021

Hello Laundromat101. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Laundrylux, 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:Laundromat101. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Laundromat101|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. Jack Frost (talk) 09:32, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Re: March 2021

Hello @Jack Frost, thank you for your message. Firstly, let me offer my sincerest apologies- as I am a new user, I am still learning the protocols of Wikipedia. I have updated the "About Me" section of my user page and have disclosed my work as a freelance copy-writer for clients in the US commercial laundry industry. To the best of my knowledge, the article I published on Laundrylux is unbiased and abides by the appropriate formatting guidelines. I have used sources from well-known industry publications, and have refrained from using any promotional language. Could you maybe advise me as to the best way to proceed? If there is anything in the article that goes against Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest guidelines, I will happily edit it accordingly.

Kind regards, Laundromat101 (talk) 14:41, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

@Laundromat101: As per the paid editing policy, you must publicly disclose every client that is paying you for your writing on Wikipedia, and every article that you are editing on their behalf.

On your userpage, you should use one of the variations of the {{paid}} template. Because you are a freelancer, not an employee of an agency representing a client, use the "employer" field to name your clients. If you're having difficulty choosing the appropriate ones or getting them to display properly, I can assist you.

Next, you should go to the talk page of every article you've edited on behalf of a client, and place the {{connected contributor (paid)}} template at the top. Again, your client's name should be put in the employer field.

Just don't forget to add any new clients and/or articles in the future. Aside from the mandatory component, disclosure is a good way to build trust with the Wikipedia editing community. It makes it clear that you're acting in good faith, so other editors will be more willing to help you. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:10, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Re: Paid Contributions

@Drm310 Thank you for this- I very much appreciate your help. I have added a {{paid}} template to my user page (as in this instance there is a contractor paying me on behalf of a client, I have included them as an "employer"). I have also updated the article's talk page with a {{connected contributor (paid)}} template, and will do so for all future paid editing. The article I wish to publish is currently in draft in "Articles for creation"- is it best to now submit for review? Laundromat101 (talk) 16:36, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

You may submit it for review if you like, however I will caution you that the reviewer might take issue with the use of trade publications as references. If the independence of the publication cannot be established, it may be disqualified. Here is an excerpt from WP:ORGIND: Trade publications must be used with great care. While feature stories from leading trade magazines may be used where independence is clear, there is a presumption against the use of coverage in trade magazines to establish notability. This is because businesses often use these publications to increase their visibility. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:11, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Ok, thanks Drm310! Laundromat101 (talk) 10:43, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

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