User talk:Annejamesco
June 2023
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Hello, I'm 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Artificial leather have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco (talk) 06:36, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
Conflict of interest/Paid editing
[edit]Hello Annejamesco. 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 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:Annejamesco. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Annejamesco|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) 09:24, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
- Hello. Absolutely no paid editing or whatever you are suggesting. I am new to looking at Wikipedia entries about topics relevant to my business and looking today reveals many not including events happening - see edits re UN Environment Program. I want to set up a page for me personally and for business and can’t do so until 4 days + 10 edits. Just doing what I can. 60.240.233.16 (talk) 09:58, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
- If you are editing about your business, then you most likely do meet wikipedia's definition of a paid editor, and you most definitely have a clear conflict of interest. This is not the place to set up a personal page, you can get your own website for that. This is an encyclopedia and only topics that are notable, written neutrally, and verified by independent reliable sources should be written about here. If that is why you are here, then this is not the place for you. regards, Melcous (talk) 00:32, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- I did not say I was editing about my business. I said I was looking at topics 'relevant to my business' ie topics about sustainable fashion, sustainability, artificial leather, climate change. Many of entries are very out of date and my edits purely added an update - eg the role of the UN Environment Program to #beatplasticpollution. I am not setting up a personal page through user talk but I will set one up on Wikipedia as I will about my business. Outside of here I am a published author of many books including law text books and I do not act unethically and I know a conflict of interest when I see one - and it is not here. Take a look at my profile on LinkedIn and then I kindly ask you to inform yourself in the future before going wrongfully on the attack. Anne Annejamesco (talk) 02:33, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- First, please note that I did not block you, that was an administrator. I left you the warning here about wikipedia's Conflict of Interest and Paid editing guidelines, which is what is relevant here, not any other understanding you may have from elsewhere. You did edit 'about your business' as soon as you added links to its website, and in doing so you breached those guidelines. 'Setting up your own personal or business page' anywhere on Wikipedia would also be in breach of those guidelines. Please read them and make sure you understand them. This is an encyclopedia, not a place to promote yourself or your business, and articles do not belong to anyone, including the people or businesses they are about. It is highly unlikely you would be unblocked if your intention is solely to edit about things about or connected to your business, and certainly not to add links to your website. Melcous (talk) 09:05, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- I will add that in this edit you inserted the name of your business into an article, as well as multiples links to its website, and a reference to yourself as a "passionate advocate" and links to a page selling your book - to say that that is neither 'editing about your business', nor a clear conflict of interest, seems disingenuous at best. Melcous (talk) 09:09, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- First, please note that I did not block you, that was an administrator. I left you the warning here about wikipedia's Conflict of Interest and Paid editing guidelines, which is what is relevant here, not any other understanding you may have from elsewhere. You did edit 'about your business' as soon as you added links to its website, and in doing so you breached those guidelines. 'Setting up your own personal or business page' anywhere on Wikipedia would also be in breach of those guidelines. Please read them and make sure you understand them. This is an encyclopedia, not a place to promote yourself or your business, and articles do not belong to anyone, including the people or businesses they are about. It is highly unlikely you would be unblocked if your intention is solely to edit about things about or connected to your business, and certainly not to add links to your website. Melcous (talk) 09:05, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- I did not say I was editing about my business. I said I was looking at topics 'relevant to my business' ie topics about sustainable fashion, sustainability, artificial leather, climate change. Many of entries are very out of date and my edits purely added an update - eg the role of the UN Environment Program to #beatplasticpollution. I am not setting up a personal page through user talk but I will set one up on Wikipedia as I will about my business. Outside of here I am a published author of many books including law text books and I do not act unethically and I know a conflict of interest when I see one - and it is not here. Take a look at my profile on LinkedIn and then I kindly ask you to inform yourself in the future before going wrongfully on the attack. Anne Annejamesco (talk) 02:33, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- If you are editing about your business, then you most likely do meet wikipedia's definition of a paid editor, and you most definitely have a clear conflict of interest. This is not the place to set up a personal page, you can get your own website for that. This is an encyclopedia and only topics that are notable, written neutrally, and verified by independent reliable sources should be written about here. If that is why you are here, then this is not the place for you. regards, Melcous (talk) 00:32, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
June 2023
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Acroterion (talk) 00:23, 8 June 2023 (UTC)- The person who chose to unblock me has wrongfully accused me of acting to pursue myself and my business in the edits I made yesterday. She is entirely incorrect. The edits referred to facts to update entries quite out of date - eg the work of the UN Environment Program to #beatplasticpollution in the entry of Artificial Leather. None of the edits I made advertise my business or or or promote my business or me. None of the edits refer to my business. There are some references to blog articles on the website but they are supportive of the comment made by way of edit. And I do have some expertise in the subjects I chose to look at and edit. I have added a book to Artificial Leather I wrote as 'Further Reading' as it is about ending the use of toxic synthetic leathers for the planet and relevant to the entry which requires updating. I only registered as a user yesterday and I will continue to set up relevant pages about me and about the business when I have attained the status to do so. THis is what I replied to the person who blocked me and I ask that I please be unblocked. THank you. Anne
- 'I did not say I was editing about my business. I said I was looking at topics 'relevant to my business' ie topics about sustainable fashion, sustainability, artificial leather, climate change. Many of entries are very out of date and my edits purely added an update - eg the role of the UN Environment Program to #beatplasticpollution. I am not setting up a personal page through user talk but I will set one up on Wikipedia as I will about my business. Outside of here I am a published author of many books including law text books and I do not act unethically and I know a conflict of interest when I see one - and it is not here. Take a look at my profile on LinkedIn and then I kindly ask you to inform yourself in the future before going wrongfully on the attack. Anne' Annejamesco (talk) 02:43, 8 June 2023 (UTC)