User talk:Jheywoodea

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Speedy deletion nomination of Europ Assistance

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A tag has been placed on Europ Assistance requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company, corporation or organization that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. | Naypta^✉ opened his mouth at 15:11, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020

Hello Jheywoodea. 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:Jheywoodea. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jheywoodea|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. For reference, you admitted to being a member of staff of the company Europ Assistance, whose article you have repeatedly created after having had it deleted, in this talk page edit. | Naypta^✉ opened his mouth at 15:27, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Naypta I am trying my best to bring back the page in a fair way. I am not being paid to advocate, I just want to restore the history of this company on the page, like thousands of others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jheywoodea (talk • contribs) 16:32, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, you've admitted on the talk page of the article in question that you are a member of staff of the company who you were writing about. This is a prime conflict of interest - there's a guide to Wikipedia's policy on conflicts of interest here. We have a very strong policy on conflicts of interest because Wikipedia is not a means of promotion or a blog, and is similarly not an indiscriminate collection of information - there are strict requirements for inclusion in an encyclopedia like Wikipedia. At the moment, I don't see that the company you work for meets those requirements - you can read more about what they are here - but even if I thought it did, as an employee, you would be very strongly discouraged from creating an article yourself about it.

You need to disclose your paid editing, as, irrespective of whether your employer has directly instructed you to create a Wikipedia article about them, you are paid by them to create public relations material for them, as you've openly said on the talk page of the article. Even were you not to work in public relations for the company, you would still have a conflict of interest talking about the company who employ you, and would still need to disclose it.

I hope that helps clarify things. Please let me know if you have any further questions - otherwise, please follow the instructions I posted above. One final note as well - when you're writing a note on a talk page like here, you need to use ~~~~ at the end to sign your name - it helps us keep track of everything :)

Thanks! | Naypta^✉ opened his mouth at 15:41, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please share how I update my profile to include this, even a webpage would be helpful. --Jheywoodea (talk) 15:47, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

All the information you should need on disclosure is linked to in the plain and simple conflict of interest guide, which I strongly suggest you read through. Please understand as well that abiding by conflict of interest rules doesn't guarantee that your article will be kept - it still needs to meet the criteria for notability for companies. The conflict of interest rules are a minimum standard for editors who have one. | Naypta^✉ opened his mouth at 15:52, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is this right, at the top of my page? --Jheywoodea (talk) 16:03, 22 April 2020 (UTC) Jon[reply]

Not quite - this is your user talk page, whereas it needs to be on your user page, which you can find by clicking on your name. I'll move it over there for you now, though - it's the right template.

You can reply to a post on your talk page without needing to create a new section, by the way - just edit the existing section by clicking "Edit source" next to it, and then add another colon (:) for each level down a reply chain you are. For instance, this post has seven colons before it, so the next post in this chain would have eight. | Naypta^✉ opened his mouth at 16:11, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you for your help Naypta. Have a nice evening and take care. Jheywoodea (talk) 16:13, 22 April 2020 (UTC)Jon[reply]

You're very welcome! You too, stay safe :) | Naypta^✉ opened his mouth at 16:15, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your email

You contacted me via email, but indicated no reason that the matter would need to be handled privately. If you would like to discuss this matter, please contact me on-wiki, not via backchannels. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 01:19, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, please note that paid editors are not permitted to directly create mainspace articles. You must create a draft and the draft must be reviewed by articles for creation. I have accordingly moved the article to Draft:Europ Assistance. You may request AfC review there, but you absolutely must not move it to mainspace yourself, nor directly make any more mainspace edits regarding this subject without review. If you do so you will be blocked from editing. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 01:23, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Seraphimblade: I know this is a minor point and probably seems picky, but whilst paid editors are very strongly discouraged from creating articles in mainspace, and I would consider it inappropriate in general for them to do so, I'm not sure it's accurate to say it's "not permitted"; so long as the paid editing disclosure is in place, the user is in compliance with the ToS, and WP:PAY phrases it as "should", not "must". Nonetheless, the point you're making is completely valid - it's a very bad idea to do so, regardless of the exact wording. | Naypta^✉ opened his mouth at 09:19, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Europ Assistance

Hello, Jheywoodea. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Europ Assistance".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:37, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]