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Paid contributions on Wikipedia involve editing any page in exchange for compensation, including money or other incentives. Editors receiving payment must disclose their employer , client, and affiliation, on their user page, talk page, or in edit summaries.
a statement in the edit summary accompanying any paid contributions. Applicable law, or community and Foundation policies and guidelines, such as those addressing conflicts of interest, may further limit paid contributions or require more detailed disclosure. A Wikimedia Project community may adopt an alternative paid contribution disclosure ...
Paid editing issues remain subject to divided discussions, particularly an extensive community-wide request for comment in June 2009. Some users feel that forms of paid editing have always taken place and remain acceptable if the contributions align with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on content and contributing.
Content on Wikipedia, including article drafts and talk-page comments, can be freely copied and modified by third parties for commercial and non-commercial use, with the sole requirement that it be attributed to Wikipedia contributors. Paid editors must ensure that they own the copyright of text they have been paid to add to Wikipedia ...
This policy only covers disclosure of paid contributions; it does not address other matters that are covered by English Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines ...
Text and/or other creative content from this version of was copied or moved into Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure/sandbox with this edit on August 10, 2021. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.
Use this template when dealing with users who are being paid to contribute to Wikipedia. This template should be placed on the talk pages of articles and drafts. The template adds pages to Category:Talk pages of subject pages with paid contributions and to Category:Misplaced transclusions of Template:Connected contributor (paid).
Paid editors must place the {{connected contributor (paid)}} template at the top of the article talk page accompanying any paid contributions (and to fill in the parameters), and to supply a clearly visible list of their paid contributions on their main user page using {}.