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Add talk page link: | talk = {{{talk|#}}}. See sandbox. Cf. Template:POV. — W.andrea (talk) 03:47, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done SWinxy (talk) 14:22, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This template includes (emboldening in original):

This article may have been created or edited in return for undisclosed payments... It may require cleanup...

and we have been told in previous talk page discussions that (for example) "It doesn't say that there is a problem, but it makes it clear that there is potential for one".

So why, then, does it place articles (including BLPs into the very unambiguous Category:Wikipedia articles with undisclosed paid content‎? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:01, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How can you tell that someone is getting paid for an article? BetsyRogers (talk) 02:53, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Generally we never know with 100 % certainty which is why it says "may have", but it's typically because accounts have been found to be socks via an WP:SPI, or because people have found adverts by companies looking to create articles on freelancer sites, or because a username is indicative of someone being an employee of the company, or the article history / user history contains various hallmarks that are indicative of paid editing. SmartSE (talk) 10:31, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Template_talk:COI#Scam_warning about the recent addition to this template. SmartSE (talk) 09:20, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]