Loriacreative
October 2024
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Hello Loriacreative. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:George Littlechild, Artist, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Loriacreative. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Loriacreative|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. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 00:03, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- You are mistaken as I am not directly or indirectly compensated for my edits to George Littlechild, Artist draft. Mark Loria. 2604:3D08:127F:D610:1C66:5B5C:F961:9906 (talk) 19:17, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- Please log in when responding. According to his website, Littlechild sold his art through Alcheringa Gallery, now Mark Loria Gallery. Is he still selling art through your gallery, and are you compensated when you sell his art? If so, that makes you a paid editor by Wikipedia's standards, even if you are not paid specifically to edit Wikipedia. You should also make a paid editing declaration if you want to make future edits to Mark Loria Gallery. Since it is an article and not a draft, you should make edit requests on the talk page instead of editing the article directly. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 22:15, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- I find this all way too complicated. I am not a computer person, only trying to set up a wikipedia page for one of Canada's top indigenous artists because he can't do it himself. Of course we represent George Littlechild but I have no idea how to do any of this. Loriacreative (talk) 21:16, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- Please log in when responding. According to his website, Littlechild sold his art through Alcheringa Gallery, now Mark Loria Gallery. Is he still selling art through your gallery, and are you compensated when you sell his art? If so, that makes you a paid editor by Wikipedia's standards, even if you are not paid specifically to edit Wikipedia. You should also make a paid editing declaration if you want to make future edits to Mark Loria Gallery. Since it is an article and not a draft, you should make edit requests on the talk page instead of editing the article directly. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 22:15, 4 October 2024 (UTC)