User talk:Soafy234

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February 2024[edit]

Hello Soafy234. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Barbara Capponi, 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.

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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:Soafy234. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Soafy234|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 18:02, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for not keeping it on my talk page and I apologize for leaving it on your talk page.

I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits to Barbara Capponi page. I am translating the information that is found on the Italian wikipedia webpage of her profile page onto the English wikipedia webpage with appropriate references and sources. Soafy234 (talk) 18:10, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I find this explanation insufficient given that you have thus far exclusively edited articles related to RAI properties, as well as the pace at which you have been doing so. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 18:13, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any other information that you need included in my explanation?

Additionally, isn't it allowed to translate information into different language(s) from one language wikipedia to another language wikipedia when a person has time to do it with appropriate sources and references as needed on any topic (e.g. info found on Unomattina [Italian] to Unomattina [English]) beyond the one we are discussing Soafy234 (talk) 18:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How did you choose which articles to translate from Italian? _signed,Rosguill ^talk 18:28, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I choose which articles to translate from Italian based on what information is currently lacking and/or needs updates on the English version or create them if they don't exist yet (e.g. Unomattina in famgilia)

For example, the RaiNews 24 was severely lacking and I have been paying close attention to the changes that has happen as I usually watch this network online on my laptop and notice that the directors of RaiNews24 section has been outdated as there is a new director for the media outlet. Soafy234 (talk) 18:57, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I don't find that explanation super convincing, as it seems like a pretty significant coincidence that every article you've edited thus far, both here and on it.wiki, is affiliated with RAI. I would strongly recommend that for the foreseeable future you avoid editing topics related to RAI, and preferably stick to articles about subjects with little-to-no possibility of commercial interest (e.g., historical topics, articles about animal species, etc.) If you continue to focus on RAI topics, I am going to bring it to a community discussion at WP:COIN in order for others to assess the situation. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 22:18, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Duly noted. I will keep that in mind while editing articles on both the English Wikipedia and the Italian wikipedia. Soafy234 (talk) 22:24, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]