User talk:Iris Luria

Declare any connection

Hello Iris Luria. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to SHAD (summer program), 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:Iris Luria. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Iris Luria|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. --Worldbruce (talk) 01:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Worldbruce: this is my first time replying on a talk page and I am rather new to Wikipedia so I hope I'm doing this correctly. I am not being paid to edit and/or advocate for the SHAD program in any way, and have no financial stake in it. I did participate in the program in the past and thought I could start contributing to Wikipedia by starting off with something I was familiar with. I do believe that the information I provided in my edit was accurate, and provided citations for what I was saying wherever possible. I hope this clears things up. Iris Luria (talk) 01:40, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It is very unlikely that SHAD paid anyone to do anything. It's a summer program for young teens in Canada. WaterWaterWaterLooLooLoo (talk) 01:45, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]