User talk:Yves Kirsch

January 2024

Hello Yves Kirsch. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Serge Kampf, 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:Yves Kirsch. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Yves Kirsch|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. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 14:33, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello Rosguill, I started editing the German Serge Kampf article by adding references and then saw that there wasn’t an English article. Since there are Serge Kampf articles in other languages too, I thought it would be good to add the English one. Therefore, I started to translate the German article into English. This is not a paid article, I just wanted to contribute by adding a translation.

If I misunderstood any guideline so that Serge Kampf does not deserve an English article, please correct me or delete the article. If you do so, please also tell me the right guidelines for translating an article. I am thankful for your help. Yves Kirsch (talk) 11:33, 25 January 2024 (UTC)