User talk:Ryan-serpapi

Hello Ryan-serpapi. 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:Ryan-serpapi. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ryan-serpapi|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. Bobby Cohn 🍁 (talk) 13:33, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi Bobby, thanks for clarifying, I understand the concern and I will make the disclosure. The user who made the initial submission made a disclosure, and I wasn't aware the same disclosure was required to edit it. Moreover, the process to disclose this wasn't obvious to me while editing.

Besides the need to disclose, is there any specific feedback you can provide on the article itself? Ryan-serpapi (talk) 16:35, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

I've added the disclosure to my user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ryan-serpapi

Apologies for my misunderstanding - just to highlight that no deception was intended, I included the name of the company in my user name as an informal declaration of this relationship.

Thanks again for your review and would appreciate any additional feedback you can provide on the page. Ryan-serpapi (talk) 16:47, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Not a problem, and thank you for making the necessary declaration. Just want to make sure you saw my response on my talk page. Thanks, Bobby Cohn 🍁 (talk) 15:47, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Ryan-serpapi. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:SerpApi, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the Edit Request Wizard), including links or details of reliable sources that support your suggestions;
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. LuniZunie 16:46, 10 October 2025 (UTC)