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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:18, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hello DoubleGrazing, I am not being paid to do this. I took this as a personal project as I am an alumnus of this institution and decided to do this without any economic compensation because I noticed that the institution did not have a Wikipedia page.
- Thank you. Luadena0 (talk) 15:36, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- I see, thank you. In that case, please make the generic conflict of interest (COI) disclosure. I will post instructions below.
- BTW, what is your connection to user Nia Andrade? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
January 2024
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Hello Luadena0. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Geneva School of Diplomacy, 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 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:Luadena0. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Luadena0|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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:20, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
edit Hello, Luadena0. 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:
- 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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:43, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hello DoubleGrazing, you misunderstood me. I currently do not have any type of connections or relationships with the institution. It was a personal project.
- If this is still an issue, how can I solve it? Thank you. Luadena0 (talk) 15:47, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't misunderstand. If this is your alma mater, then you have an external relationship with it, just like you would have with any organisation that you used to work for, or perhaps a sports club you were a member of. Whether that relationship gives rise to a conflict when you're writing about the subject, that can be debated. I tend to prefer to err on the side of caution, and would therefore declare a COI even if it's borderline, rather than not declare a COI which may be borderline. But ultimately only you can make this call. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 16:55, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
January 2024
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 19:01, 3 January 2024 (UTC)- Hello Jimfbleak,
- What was the problem? Why am I blocked? Luadena0 (talk) 09:41, 4 January 2024 (UTC)