User talk:Animulls

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Happy editing! Cheers, Ktkvtsh (talk) 01:02, 30 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello Animulls. 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.

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:Animulls. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Animulls|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. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 01:11, 30 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

To be clear, you are considered a paid editor if you are employed by or receive compensation from Cinnamon Energy Systems, regardless of whether you are specifically paid to edit Wikipedia. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 01:13, 30 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Helpful Raccoon - thanks for your guidance. This content was written to provide historical context of a company and founder that was and continues to be a major force in the renewable energy industry, similar to Sunrun, Enphase Energy, Solar City, or Tesla Energy. I have been in the industry for 20+ years and have an interest in the value of the people and companies that have shaped the industry. I have worked for the founder upon various periods of time but am not being directly compensated to write this article. Appreciate your guidance to assist with publication. Many Thanks! Animulls (talk) 19:11, 30 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for clarifying. If you have worked for the founder in the past, then you have a conflict of interest and should disclose that accordingly, as instructed at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 19:18, 30 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. Can you please clarify what I should disclose and where| I should post it? Animulls (talk) 19:37, 30 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

You can disclose it on your user page, as described in WP:DISCLOSE. Adding specifics about your conflict of interest is encouraged but not required. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 22:00, 30 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Helpful Racoon, I've added the disclosure to my user page. Will this enable my draft to be published? Animulls (talk) 01:41, 1 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

No, drafts still need to conform with relevant Wikipedia policies, most importantly Wikipedia's notability criteria which most companies in the world do not meet. It is strongly discouraged to edit in areas where you have a conflict of interest precisely because it is so difficult to edit in a way that follows our policies. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 03:15, 1 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

A tag has been placed on Draft:Cinnamon Energy Systems, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 03:17, 30 November 2025 (UTC)Reply