User talk:Anisa at SAIMechE

January 2025

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering, from its old location at User:Anisa at SAIMechE. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 12:39, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Undisclosed paid editing

Hello Anisa at SAIMechE. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering, 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:Anisa at SAIMechE. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Anisa at SAIMechE|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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 12:42, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Drm310,

I am in no way or form being compensated for my edits. I repeat, and confirm that I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. There is no financial stake or gain for me in doing this article. As mentioned, it is merely our intention to bring more awareness of our institution's history and background, to include details a list of all past presidents for example (which I am yet to add) and so on. Our Institution is similar to the likes of IMechE, SAIEE and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) who have Wikipedia pages, and we'd like to keep a similar theme as their pages do. I do hope you understand, and allow me to continue editing. In anticipation of your positive response.

Best regards

Anisa Anisa at SAIMechE (talk) 07:53, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]