AshleighT at the RSE

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Possible paid editing: disclosures required

Hello AshleighT at the RSE. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:AshleighT at the RSE. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=AshleighT at the RSE|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Melcous (talk) 20:34, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Reply

Hi Ashleigh, thanks for your message on my talk page and thanks for reading through the guidelines and seeking to follow them. What you have put on your user page is ok for now, but basically there are two options going forward:

1. Technically as you are an employee, you should disclose any contributions for which you are paid by specifically listing the articles edited on your user page using the Template:Paid. However if you are simply wanting to include elections to the society perhaps a better option is
2. Rather than editing the articles directly, on the talk page of the article for each person as appropriate, you can use the Template:Request edit to notify other editors than an election has happened, include a source confirming this information, and ask them to add that content to the article for you.

Please ask if you have any further questions. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 11:05, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for updating articles, as you did for William Dalrymple. It seems like what you are doing is heavy on statements of fact and light on content, which is great anywhere but an especially good fit for a database. I appreciate what you are doing on English Wikipedia; would you consider also formatting your edits as structured data in Wikidata? See what I did at William Dalrymple (Q955334) to copy your information there in the membership section. The advantage of this is that it creates open linked data so that soon, when wiki is more automated, we will be able to list this membership with automatic translation into every language rather than doing manual edits one language at a time as you are doing. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:38, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Sources

I notice that when you add sources to article you are generally adding press releases about RSE members. When doing this you are using a template that intended for news articles. Would you please use a more appropriate citation template for this activity. Drchriswilliams (talk) 11:10, 28 March 2018 (UTC)