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| Paid Editing Proposals |
| In November 2013, there were three main discussions and votes on paid editing: |
| No paid advocacy (talk) (closed: opposed) |
| Paid editing policy proposal (talk) (closed: opposed) |
| Conflict of interest limit (talk) (closed: opposed) |
 | This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia is a non-commercial website. Editing for profit is frowned upon by many community members. |
Commercial editing, or editing for profit, is very controversial on Wikipedia. Editors with a financial conflict of interest (such as business owners and public-relations professionals acting on their behalf) should recognize the risk of editing affected articles directly. A better approach is to disclose the conflict of interest, make suggestions on talk pages and noticeboards, and request edits using the {{edit COI}} template.