User talk:DewanElectrifyingSayeed

September 2025

Hello DewanElectrifyingSayeed. 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:DewanElectrifyingSayeed. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=DewanElectrifyingSayeed|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. Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 18:49, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am an employee of Lonestar Electric Supply. As required by Wikipedia's Terms of Use, I disclose that I have a conflict of interest when editing topics related to Lonestar Electric Supply. I will propose edits on the Talk pages of relevant articles instead of editing directly, and I will rely only on reliable, independent sources.

So essentially, all i would have to do is use the template {{Paid}} on the Lonestar Electric Supply page and post

DewanElectrifyingSayeed, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by Lonestar Electric Supply for their contributions to Wikipedia.

And then I'm gonna be good? DewanElectrifyingSayeed (talk) 18:59, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You should place the paid template on your userpage. Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 19:58, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]