User talk:Melissavanmeter

Hi Melissavanmeter! I noticed that you recently made an edit at Electric power quality and marked it as "minor", but it may not have been. On Wikipedia, "minor edit" refers only to superficial edits that could never be disputed, such as fixing typos or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not minor, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Speedrunz (talk) 22:39, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello Melissavanmeter. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Ubicquia, 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:Melissavanmeter. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Melissavanmeter|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. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 12:15, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for making this declaration. Please explain your relationship to Bluebird267 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 23:34, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Bluebird267 and I are co-workers at Ubicquia. Melissavanmeter (talk) 00:14, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarity. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 00:32, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion, or advertising again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Spamming your employer's/client's products in articles is not allowed 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 12:29, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Please stop adding information to articles about Ubicquia's products. These are still conflict-of-interest edits even if they don't mention Ubicquia by name. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 06:31, 18 December 2025 (UTC)