User talk:Auguste76840

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 13:33, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello Auguste76840. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to TP-Link, 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:Auguste76840. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Auguste76840|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. Amigao (talk) 16:54, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello back,

I'm not affiliated to a company. As a matter of fact, I don't even work for TP-Link or any affiliated companies, neither am I getting paid for any edits. And I've discovered the situation of TP-Link only a few days ago.

The reason I was editing that page was because according to information from multiple sources, the two companies no longer are affiliated to each other, they have different logos, different investors and different strategies. To the average reader, the current Wikipedia page is very confusing and hard to understand ; I'm thinking of just splitting the page in two (one for the Shenzhen entity and one for the Irvine entity).

I'll find better sources than just press releases, as you pointed out they aren't necessarily reliable or true. I thus apologize for the edits I've made that weren't complying with Wikipedia's rules – I knew about Conflict of Interest (COI) rules ; but I thought the sources (especially the ones besides the press release) were reliable.

Thank you for your time. Auguste76840 (talk) 17:43, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

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