Hello Ateeb Ali Syed. 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.
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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:Ateeb Ali Syed. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ateeb Ali Syed|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. 331dot (talk) 14:51, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have not editted anything as of yet, but yes I am being paid by the organization. The edits though are not against the wikipedia guidelines, they are rather about their detailed history, services, address and office locations, awards they recived. Ateeb Ali Syed (talk) 18:34, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, then you are required by the Terms of Use to make the paid editing disclosure. Please follow the instructions provided above. 331dot (talk) 18:47, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, And I ahve to submit the edits to the talk page of the article? after that if all of the content and images are unbiased and informational, how much time will it take to publish? Ateeb Ali Syed (talk) 21:54, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you should request edits on the talk page as edit requests.(there is a edit request wizard which may help) We cannot guarantee a timeframe in which your requests will be looked at by volunteers, but you can increase the chances of a speedy response by proposing incremental changes, one or two at a time. Don't propose a wholesale rewrite or other large change that will require a volunteer to invest a lot of their time. 331dot (talk) 22:14, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got it, Thanks. And for the images should I upload them on wikipedia common first, and then use them? and should I declare first at my user page about being paid? or after I make an edit? Ateeb Ali Syed (talk) 22:36, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you actually took the images, and want to release them for use by anyone for any purpose, you may upload them to Commons. Its possible, but harder, to upload to Commons if you didn't take the image. You would then need to show that the copyright is explicitly compatible with Wikipedia's.
If the article existed already, it might get such an update (although unnecessary, as their business starting date would have been given in the article). But the company itself has not been shown to be notable at Wikipedia yet, so I really doubt the anniversary alone warrants an article here. --CiaPan (talk) 11:03, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, I was drafting an article with similar content type, Thus wanted to ask if this type of information is relevent to put as they are notable part of their organaization's history. Ateeb Ali Syed (talk) 13:09, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I really don't think so. There are probably millions of companies worldwide who exist longer than 10 years and literally nobody cares. The anniversary may be a feast for the company, its management and employees, but customers and cooperating companies are interested in the current business state. They look for what the company does now and how well it does it; its life length means almost nothing for them (and even less for the rest of the world, which includes Wikipedia readers).
Please compare our articles about some long-lasting companies, like Japaneese Nikon (founded 107 years ago), Italian Lavazza (129 years) or US Procter & Gamble (187 years). Do those articles mention any anniversaries...?
I can imagine the company owners may use an anniversary as an occasion for some important changes in their business (e.g. rebranding, restructuring, fusion, expanding to a new segment of a market or a totally new market). But even then it would be the change in the business what's the notable event, not the anniversary itself. --CiaPan (talk) 09:10, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
