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November 2021

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  Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, such as at Talk:Prime Healthcare Services, (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Also, please use the bottom of the talk page to add comments. It makes it easier to read things in chronological order. Thanks. rsjaffe 🗩 🖉 21:03, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

 

Hello Archie515. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Prime Healthcare Services, 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 compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. 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.

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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:Archie515. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Archie515|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. scope_creepTalk 23:08, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

I am in no way being compensated for my postings and do not have a conflict in any way with Prime. However, in researching California based health care systems -- an interest of mine -- it appeared Prime was being treated quite differently by Wiki editors such as yourself, a discrepancy that was noted by others on the Prime talk page. It is my understanding that Wiki editing rules strongly discourage arbitrary, wholesale edits without clear explanation. History on Prime shows otherwise. I'm at a loss to explain why Prime is being treated so poorly compared to other health organizations of similar size and importance. My edits are simply to correct the record and provide balance. Any improvements to sourcing is certainly welcome. Archie515 (talk) 16:24, 23 November 2021 (UTC)Archie515Archie515 (talk) 16:24, 23 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Managing a conflict of interest

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  Hello, Archie515. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. El_C 11:09, 20 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

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