RKSatWork

Managing a conflict of interest

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

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. MrOllie (talk) 22:05, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello MrOllie,

I'm sorry I did not disclose that I am employee of Cedars-Sinai where Dr. Theodorescu is a director, I do not do much editing on Wikipedia.

From what I read, should I add this edit to my User page?

{{paid|employer=Cedars-Sinai Medical Center|client=RKSatWork}}

Or do I add this to the summaries when I make the edits?

Thank you. RKSatWork (talk) 22:21, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

You're not the client, just omit that field. Rather than editing pages where you have a conflict directly, you should be making use of talk pages to make suggestions instead. MrOllie (talk) 23:15, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello MrOllie,

I think I've added the appropriate COI on my User page and I've created a discussion on the Talk page for Dr. Dan Theodorescu's article. I found this help page, should I follow the steps in order or should I try all of them? Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help

Thank you. RKSatWork (talk) 17:26, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

As a paid editor some of that does not apply to you. In any case do not open multiple discussions at once, the community here discourages that. MrOllie (talk) 17:31, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Understood, thank you.

Also do I need to remove all of my edits to have the "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject" alert removed from the article? RKSatWork (talk) 17:40, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Someone will remove the notice after reviewing the article and making any further changes that might be needed. Be patient, most of us are volunteers here and our time is limited. MrOllie (talk) 18:46, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I thought I needed to do some additional steps. RKSatWork (talk) 01:38, 28 June 2023 (UTC)