What is Wikipedia’s paid editing disclosure policy?

Wikipedia’s paid editing policy (WP:PAID) is one of the most consequential rules for any reputation firm working on Wikipedia, and it is short enough to read in five minutes. The core requirement is disclosure: any editor who is paid – or even compensated indirectly – to edit on behalf of a subject must publicly disclose that relationship on the editor’s user page, on the Talk page of any article they work on, and in the edit summary of any edit they make. The disclosure must identify the employer, the client, and any affiliation. Non-disclosure is treated as a serious policy violation that can lead to account blocks, IP-range bans, and significant damage to the underlying article. Five Blocks operates exclusively under disclosed COI editing – it is the only model that produces durable results and the only one consistent with Wikipedia’s expectations.