User talk:JHath08
Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, JHath08. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Brandon Ogles, 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 {{request edit}} template);
- disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
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- 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. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 22:17, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
April 2023
[edit]Hello JHath08. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Brandon Ogles, 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:JHath08. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=JHath08|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. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 22:26, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
- I have formally created a Paid-contribution disclosure and have already disclosed my client in my user page. JHath08 (talk) 13:34, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for disclosing your status as a paid editor. Now to the merits of your edits, I reverted them because they turned the article into a resume. It is perfectly fine to say "representative Ogles introduced a bill to require firearm safety training in Tennessee schools". What's not fine is to turn this into promotional material - "This achievement demonstrates Representative Ogles' unwavering commitment to safeguarding the welfare and security of Tennessee students and educators" is not an acceptable statement in a Wikipedia article, because it is biased and seeking to promote Mr. Ogles rather than provide information to readers in an objective manner. Everything needs to be written in a neutral manner to comply with Wikipedia's policies. In summary, you're welcome to expand the article, but you must do so in a neutral manner. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 15:15, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Aaahh I see. Thank you for this clarification! I'll once again look at the material and revise the necessary statements there. Thank You So Much!! 2001:4455:2FC:A800:90BF:44C5:D719:A43A (talk) 15:18, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Hi there!
- I was going through some edits with my article and I stumbled across your comment regarding the article turning into a "Resume". Would you be able to clarify what you mean and which parts made it look like a resume?
- Thank You! JHath08 (talk) 15:41, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for disclosing your status as a paid editor. Now to the merits of your edits, I reverted them because they turned the article into a resume. It is perfectly fine to say "representative Ogles introduced a bill to require firearm safety training in Tennessee schools". What's not fine is to turn this into promotional material - "This achievement demonstrates Representative Ogles' unwavering commitment to safeguarding the welfare and security of Tennessee students and educators" is not an acceptable statement in a Wikipedia article, because it is biased and seeking to promote Mr. Ogles rather than provide information to readers in an objective manner. Everything needs to be written in a neutral manner to comply with Wikipedia's policies. In summary, you're welcome to expand the article, but you must do so in a neutral manner. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 15:15, 17 April 2023 (UTC)