User talk:Michael König 1503

February 2024

Hello Michael König 1503. 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 compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. 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:Michael König 1503. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Michael König 1503|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. Thanks, Framawiki (please notify me when you reply) 21:45, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello! Unfortunately I've only just seen your message. A few years ago, as part of a project at my school at the time, I looked into the Deichmann family, their foundation and also the company. Since then, I have been following developments from time to time and have updated or added to this article (and other articles) from time to time. I have always used reliable sources and have not created any promotional content. If this impression has arisen, I am sorry. Michael König 1503 (talk) 10:53, 24 April 2024 (UTC)