Stevengshapiro

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Stevengshapiro. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page User:Stevengshapiro/sandbox, 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, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Longhair\^talk 23:10, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

November 2018

Hello Stevengshapiro. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Stevengshapiro. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Stevengshapiro|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Longhair\^talk 23:11, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi:

I have updated my user page to show my background in academics. Does this satisfy your concerns about the content of the page? I don't feel that I have a conflict of interest and look to your opinion. Thank you.

SGS

Stevengshapiro (talk) 13:59, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

You have a direct conflict of interest as a paid employee of American University Washington College of Law as their Director of Hospitality and Tourism Law Program and are contributing content to Wikipedia relating to those topics. To avoid violations of Wikipedia policies please review the information relating to paid-contribution disclosure and promotional editing.

You may be blocked if you continue to edit on topics where a conflict of interest exists. To contribute to these topics you are advised to request edits rather than edit any related articles directly. Further, you are required per the Wikipedia Terms of Use to disclose any conflict of interests and financial compensations on your userpage. The links I've provided in my reply here will hopefully assist you to understand the issues here. Thanks. -- Longhair\^talk 20:27, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Hospitality and Tourism Law

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A tag has been placed on Hospitality and Tourism Law, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Your draft article, Draft:Hospitality & Tourism Law Program

Hello, Stevengshapiro. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Hospitality & Tourism Law Program".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:45, 12 December 2020 (UTC)