User talk:UwyoAHC

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jackson Hole National Monument has been accepted

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Robert McClenon (talk) 02:03, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

July 2021

Hello UwyoAHC. 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 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:UwyoAHC. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=UwyoAHC|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. MarioGom (talk) 19:07, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

 Question: Thank you for the information. I want to apologize I was not aware of this stipulation nor were the employees at the American Heritage Center Archives and I want to assure you that our intentions were not meant to cause harm. I only wish to do things in accordance with Wikipedia's terms and conditions.

I would like to ask for clarification about adding the template {{Paid}}. I do not understand who should be listed as a client because I do not have one directly? Is posting the employer and affiliation enough for the template? This user was created for the employees at the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center to share the archives as a reliable resource for more information regarding the pages on Wikipedia. However, I believe this account fits under the category of being indirectly compensated for edits. I also would like to share that both the University and the Archives do not profit from any traffic to our websites or physical visitation of our Archives. The AHC acts more like a public library that anyone is free to visit to view primary sources. However, I would like to reconcile the COI and also share that we are dedicated to maintaining the neutrality of information and providing reliable resources for those trying to research their topics more in-depth.

I would also like to ask how I should proceed with this account and if anything must be removed from articles I have previously edited? I would also like to ask what will happen to the article I have already created? I understand I will have to be careful in proceeding with all edits from now on and I would like to ask if you could direct me to any other resources about how to edit as an organization or if all of our contributions must be removed? Again, I apologize for not being aware of this and if you would like more specific information regarding the creation and use of this account, I will be happy to provide that within an email. @MarioGom: Message text. UwyoAHC (talk) 20:15, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

No worries, I understand your contributions are made in good faith. To your questions:

1. You should not fill the client parameter in {{Paid}}, just employer. The client parameter is usually for marketing agencies.
2. Note that shared accounts are not allowed (see WP:NOSHARING). You should use one different account per employee. For example, MarieUwyioAHC or Tom at UwyioAHC would be valid names. There is no requirement for the accounts to match real names, the only requirement is that they correspond to individuals. You may want to request a rename of the current account (see Special:GlobalRenameRequest) and/or create new accounts.
3. You don't need to do anything about your previous edits. It is, however, a good practice, to place the {{Connected contributor (paid)}} in the talk pages (that's in addition to the {{Paid}} template in the user page). Let me know if you need assistance with this.
4. You are required to submit new articles through Wikipedia:Articles for creation. You already did that, so you are on the right track.
5. Regarding editing in a paid role, WP:PAID is the relevant documentation. Other than that, you may also ask for advice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Edit requests. That's a new project where both editors in paid roles and volunteers willing to help are gathering to improve edit requests for paid/COI editors.

Best, MarioGom (talk) 21:09, 19 July 2021 (UTC)