User talk:Megsandberg

Nomination of Harvard Design Magazine for deletion

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July 2023

Hello Megsandberg. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Harvard Design Magazine, 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:Megsandberg. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Megsandberg|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. With regard to presumed public relations activity, including editing for public relations and professional communications purposes even if not expressly paid in piecewise payment. Graywalls (talk) 03:25, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Graywalls - you wrote:

"The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Harvard Design Magazine, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic"

Ms. Sandberg disclosed her employment there with her very first edit summary. So she's clearly editing in good faith.

Ms. Sandberg, before you make any more edits please take the steps Graywalls laid out above. I hope you'll stick around and help us build more content with your design expertise (Just not about your magazine or the Grad School). You're following in William Saunders' footsteps!

Regards,

-- A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 21:26, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]