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Edit request 17 June 2025
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Description of suggested change: Remove three extraneous commas in the text as commas are not needed when a conjunction such as "and" or "however" is used
[[File:Information.svg|left|25px|alt=Information icon]] Hello Uw-paid1. 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 [[Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure|mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements]]. Paid advocacy is a category of [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|conflict of interest]] (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]] and what [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|Wikipedia is not]], and is an especially serious type of COI; the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to [[Spamdexing|black-hat search-engine optimization]].
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[[File:Information.svg|left|25px|alt=Information icon]] Hello Uw-paid1. 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 [[Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure|mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements]]. Paid advocacy is a category of [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|conflict of interest]] (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutral point of view]] and what [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|Wikipedia is not]] and is an especially serious type of COI; the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to [[Spamdexing|black-hat search-engine optimization]].
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Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing and should instead propose changes on the [[Help:Talk pages|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 [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|articles for creation]] process, rather than directly.
