User talk:AD Icla

Response
Dear Viewmont Viking, first of all I am new to Wikipedia and am not using it for commercial purposes. I am an academic and so is the ICLA a scholarly non-profit organisation. The ICLA is an entirely non-profit association. The information was out-of-date and incomplete. I was asked to update it by the ICLA’s president. I am employed as an assistant ('Ad Icla' does not stand for 'Advertisment' but 'Administrator', in case you were mislead by that) by the ICLA to maintain the ICLA’s own website, draft and mail the ICLA’s newsletters and maintain a mailing list, but I am not paid to promote the Association in other ways, or for advocacy. Neither me nor the president have any financial stake whatsoever in these updates, which are done just to ensure that the information is more complete and current for our members' benefit. Whether I do this update or not, my role with the ICLA or my pay does not change, so I do not think that the point about completing a statement on the talk page or on the edit summary “accompanying any paid contributions” applies to me. Please accept apologies if I have unknowing violated any unknown codes of conduct. Could you please realease the edits I have made this morning so I can proceed with my work? Many thanks, AD Icla

== Response and amendment= Dear Viemont Viking, thank you for pointing out some of the Wikirules. As stated yesterday in my first response, ICLA is a non-profit network of scholars which I help administer (hence AD in my user name). Following your suggestions I have removed links to our website and have tried to make the article more approachable in tone as it is by no means a commercial enterprise. I hope you can accept these changes which I have made for the benefit and information of our members. Many thanks again for your advise. AD Icla In case you have not read my response yesterday here it is:

Dear Viewmont Viking, first of all I am new to Wikipedia and am not using it for commercial purposes. I am an academic and so is the ICLA a scholarly non-profit organisation. The ICLA is an entirely non-profit association. The information was out-of-date and incomplete. I was asked to update it by the ICLA’s president. I am employed as an assistant ('Ad Icla' does not stand for 'Advertisment' but 'Administrator', in case you were mislead by that) by the ICLA to maintain the ICLA’s own website, draft and mail the ICLA’s newsletters and maintain a mailing list, but I am not paid to promote the Association in other ways, or for advocacy. Neither me nor the president have any financial stake whatsoever in these updates, which are done just to ensure that the information is more complete and current for our members' benefit. Whether I do this update or not, my role with the ICLA or my pay does not change, so I do not think that the point about completing a statement on the talk page or on the edit summary “accompanying any paid contributions” applies to me. Please accept apologies if I have unknowing violated any unknown codes of conduct. Could you please realease the edits I have made this morning so I can proceed with my work? Many thanks, AD Icla (6/8/2020)

Paid
Hello AD Icla. 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 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. 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:AD Icla. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 13:39, 6 August 2020 (UTC)