Garderner in the making

September 2023

Hello, I'm TLJ7863. I noticed that you recently removed content from International Alliance of Women without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. TLJ7863 (talk) 20:22, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi TLJ7863,

I apologize for not providing a clear explanation regarding the removal of content from the International Alliance of Women page. While the IAW fully support LGTB+ human rights, including it as a specific paragraph or policy on Wikipedia could be misleading. Our organization holds consultative status at the UN, enabling us to advocate for women and girls.

Currently, we are in the process of developing policies that could be appropriately published on Wikipedia. These policies will likely focus on topics such as sexual and reproductive health and rights, the significance of education, land ownership, gender based violence, trafficking, and more. Therefore, I kindly request that you reconsider and remove the paragraph once again.

Thank you for your understanding. Garderner in the making (talk) 12:29, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Garderner in the making. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page International Alliance of Women, 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. Andumé (talk) 21:43, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

November 2023

Hello Garderner in the making. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to International Alliance of Women, 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.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

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:Garderner in the making. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Garderner in the making|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. Andumé (talk) 05:49, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

FYI - Updating IAW page

I just wanted to let you know that, if you do work for the IAW (as your one edit summary implies), and do feel that an update to the IAW page needs to be done (or undone), the best way to address it would be to post a note on the Talk page asking an editor without COI concerns to make the update. You still should mention your COI (at least once) on the Talk page, and ideally add that info to your user page. But you'll get less admin pushback if you don't make direct edits yourself, of anything more consequential than typo and the like, to any pages for an org you are directly affiliated with - even if yours is a volunteer position rather than a paid one. While I'm hardly an expert and am in no way an official mentor or administrator on Wikipedia, feel free to reach out if you need some help in this arena. CleverTitania (talk) 18:41, 12 December 2023 (UTC)