User talk:Safchris

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Hello, Safchris, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Sturgeon Aquafarms, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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16:03, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Paid editing?

Hello Safchris. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. 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.

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, 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:Safchris. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Safchris|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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Joseph2302 22:26, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseph2302: Thanks for your help. I am posting as an employee of an affiliate company. I am not paid directly by the company indicated in the article. The article was chosen due to the context with relation to endangered species and USF&W programs. There is no further info to be added at this time as any and all additions would purely relate to any independent press, occurrences or federal announcements related to the species at this facility. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions to assure compliance to the regulations. Safchris (talk) 17:55, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Sturgeon Aquafarms for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sturgeon Aquafarms is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sturgeon Aquafarms until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:50, 3 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]