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August 2022

Hello, Andrewdoran. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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:

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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. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:0:0:0:6BB1 (talk) 02:20, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi Andrewdoran! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at University and Jepson Herbaria that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. this edit absolutely was not a minor edit Graywalls (talk) 05:15, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:0:0:0:6BB1 (talk) 03:30, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Editing in the course of your employment requires proper disclosure

Hello Andrewdoran. 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.

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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:Andrewdoran. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Andrewdoran|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. Melcous (talk) 08:06, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

I am not being paid and have never been paid to edit wikipedia pages. Just interested in the history of botany. Andrewdoran (talk) 14:46, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Please see WP:PAID, specifically this note: "Users who are compensated for any publicity efforts related to the subject of their Wikipedia contributions are deemed to be paid editors, regardless of whether they were compensated specifically to edit Wikipedia." Melcous (talk) 23:17, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

I am not paid in any way for contributing to Wikipedia. Andrewdoran (talk) 23:27, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Again, it is not just a question of whether you are paid for contributing to Wikipedia. If you are paid by an organisation or person, and you are editing about that organisation or person, then you absolutely have a conflict of interest which you are requested to disclose and edit in accordance with, and it is also quite likely that you may be considered a paid editor under wikipedia's terms of use. Either way, can I please ask you to not to further edit affected articles without addressing this. Melcous (talk) 05:27, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Moreover, disclosure would not be a pass to edit non-neutrally, including reference and citation spamming with apparent intentions of increasing the academic prominence of one's colleagues, self, or the institution they are affiliated with. Graywalls (talk) 05:10, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

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