Lisacatherine

Wow. I'm afraid this would be above and beyond my expertise. I had my DS in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2005. You might wait for another editor to come along and help you, or you could ask a specific editor for help. I have been using SwisterTwister. If you go to his talk page and ask for help, he will most likely get around to giving you tips. There are many pages you can read to get you started.

If you have questions for me after he has answered you, please feel free to ask me. I am not an expert, only a beginner that has been editing for many years. :-) Sh33na 09:54, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to respond!! I'll reach out to SwisterTwister. I really appreciate it! --Lisacatherine (talk) 03:20, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

September 2016

Hello, I'm Marianna251. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Surgical Care Affiliates have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Marianna251TALK 16:08, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi Marianna251, I appreciate your comment and could use help with some clarification - I've been going out of my way for a couple months to get editors to help me refine my text, and no one has really chimed in; I'd love to adjust per your advice. Please help me understand where the conflicts are. I set up a separate section for each topic on the page to make it easier to point out the errors.

Thanks!!

Conflict of interest, paid editing

Hi Lisacatherine. You have mentioned several times that you have "minor affiliations" sometimes in reference to Surgical Care Affiliates and more recently with regard to Patrick M. McCarthy (surgeon).

Would you please clarify if part of your work involves marketing/PR? I'll have further questions but am starting there. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 01:21, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Paid editing

Hello Lisacatherine. 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:Lisacatherine. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Lisacatherine|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. Jytdog (talk) 21:55, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

NOT PAID. :Hi Jytdog, thank you for reaching out. My interest in this article is from having a DS procedure ten years ago, and after receiving major care had offered to edit the pages of a couple other doctors out of appreciation and my own interest in how medicine works. I actually edited Dr. Mccarthy's page to try and reduce the appearance of marketing speak, as it had been flagged in the past. The "minor affiliation" with SCA was one of their staff ensuring I had the basic facts correct - and like today, updating a misspelling from "Heller-sakes" to "Heller-sacks". Hope this clears things up and you can see to restoring at least some of the hard work I've put in.

Please have the courtesy to sign and thread your posts. Jytdog (talk) 22:29, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

I don't find this credible. Whatever your intentions, the page is sordid advertising and not encyclopedic at all. It does not paint McCarthy in a good light but rather makes him look like a huckster. Jytdog (talk) 22:29, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Please reconsider your answer. Your editing is exactly like a PR person. Jytdog (talk) 22:32, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

I was trying to help and trying to learn the ropes. You have done nothing but call me names without offering any advice or help. I would expect more from someone who appears to take editing as seriously as you do. I had a duodenal switch procedure, I have eight specialists numbers in my phone, I thought it would be interesting to get into helping a doctor on a whim. And now I have no interest in helping after being talked to in this way. I've made it clear all over the talk pages that I'm a novice. Is that satisfying for you, or is that sordid?Lisacatherine (talk) 22:39, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Writing PR copy is not helping Wikipedia. Jytdog (talk) 22:44, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Is that meant to help me differentiate what I did wrong? Thanks for nothing. Deleting my account. Go away.Lisacatherine (talk) 22:46, 8 May 2018 (UTC)