PubEng1

Hello, PubEng1, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/research/people/royle/nicola (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who use multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 03:23, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I'm currently working with a friend (ShivUoL) who has been on Wikipedia for some time whereas I've only just joined. He's very kindly created a page for me which I immediately add content to. As I learn more, I'll create pages myself and won't trouble him for his help. PubEng1 (talk) 10:57, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Can you please explain what your relationship is to the subjects you are editing about and in particular whether either or both of you are editing as part of your work? You need to clarify whether you have a conflict of interest as the editing you are both doing suggests that you do and therefore you need to carefully follow the relevant guidelines. Melcous (talk) 10:59, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I'm in public engagement at the University of Leicester and because it's International Day for Women and Girls in STEM today, I'm trying to do something similar to Jess Wade (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/24/academic-writes-270-wikipedia-pages-year-female-scientists-noticed) and promote women in STEM. I've just emailed some prominent women scientists at the University and asked for details of their research in the hopes of highlighting women in science and was hoping Wikipedia would help with this.PubEng1 (talk) 11:44, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. As you work for the university and have direct contact with the people you are writing about, you need to abide by both the conflict of interest and paid editing policies here. Please note that the latter (see below) is not optional but is a condition you agreed to by creating an account and so you must make the appropriate disclosures. This also means you should not be editing any of these articles directly, but should instead propose changes on their talk pages to be reviewed by other editors, and you should not be creating articles in the main encyclopedia space but rather using the articles for creation process so they can be submitted for review. Please read these policies and indicate here that you have done so and agree to abide by them. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 11:50, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Paid editing policy

Hello PubEng1. The nature of your edits 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:PubEng1. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=PubEng1|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. Melcous (talk) 11:50, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi Melcous, You're correct. I'm not being paid to do this as such, I've not been asked to do this as part of my job. I've been doing it myself just as a nice thing for International Women and Stem in STEM Day which is today. I'd be very grateful for advice as to how to create these pages if I'm not allowed to? Many thanks. PubEng1 (talk) 12:21, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. It seems that while WP:PAID may or may not apply to you, WP:COI certainly does. As stated above, what you should do is if you wish to create a new article, create a draft which you can work on over time and receive feedback from other editors about, and then when you think it is ready, submit it for review using the articles for creation process. If you wish to make changes to an already existing article, then the best thing to do is to propose changes on the talk page. This is most easily done using the Template:Request edit, and you should provide reliable independent secondary sources to verify the content you are proposing. Using these two processes will make sure you are abiding by the relevant guidelines and allow your edits to be reviewed by other editors. Please have a look at the pages I have linked to here, and if you have further questions please ask. Thank you, Melcous (talk) 12:40, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi PubEng1 The IWD event we are doing at University of Leicester... does it have a wiki meetup page where you're keeping track off the articles being creating/improved, e.g. like this: Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Women in Red Rosiestep is asking 16:41, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi all, I'm a newbie to this and more than happy to set up a wiki meet up page if someone can tell me how to do it. :) Basically, I'm in public engagement at the Uni and wanting to write about some of the amazing scholars we have here (women, LGBT, BAME etc.) and improve diversity on Wikipedia. I'm not paid to do this, I'm doing it because I think it needs doing and ShivUoL kindly agreed to give me a hand getting pages set up for me to fill in. I've just emailed a bunch of women here and asked them for info. I've got information for Nicola Royle, Catrin Pritchard, Sybille hasn't replied (and yes, I will struggle with explaining what she does! :)), Rhaana Starling, Tanya Vladimirova, a bit for Alison Goodall and also for Martha Clokie. Andrea Cooper hasn't replied. I'd next like to create a page for Emma Parker. Thoughts and advice all gratefully received! :) PubEng1 (talk) 12:53, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Dr Kim Page

Hello, PubEng1. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Dr Kim Page".

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 12:51, 10 August 2019 (UTC)