User talk:Allison Wright - PT

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Paid editing
Hello Allison Wright Translations. 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.

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:Allison Wright Translations. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 08:22, 18 July 2022 (UTC)


 * As I have just replied to user Tamzin, "I can assure you that I am not being paid for editing any Wikipedia page, my edits are unbiased, and I am the only one making edits under the username "Allison Wright Translations". I cannot recall exactly, but since my name (Allison Wright) is a common one and is often confused with many others easily found with a simple Google search (the actress, the photojournalist, a composter, and another translator of the same name based in Philadelpia, USA, whereas I am resident in Portugal), I think my name "Allison Wright" was already taken when I registered with Wikipedia. I will complete the Special:GlobalRenameRequest now so that there is no room for doubt as regards my bona fides. Allison Wright Translations (talk)"
 * My further comment to you is that I am not being paid whether directly or indirectly for any of the edits currently being made on the English draft Wiki page for Hans Jörg Bohm. I have known Hans Jörg Bohm since early 2011. Given our association over the years, I agreed to help him with the editing of this page **on a strictly voluntary basis**, as I am in the unique position of being an English-speaking native with a very good command of all the languages of the source and reference material, namely German, Portuguese and French, as well as a comprehensive knowledge of Portuguese viticulture and viniculture. It is my belief that as the driving force behind advances in Portuguese viticulture for decades primarily for the identification, preservation and multiplication of autochthonous grapevine varieties (not to mention his being given Portuguese Presidential recognition by being awarded the title of Comendador da Ordem de Mérito Agricola in 2006) Hans Jörg Böhm is deserving of a biographical page, and deserving of any small contribution (for free!) that I can make to ensuring that this information is available in intelligible form to an English readership. Allison Wright Translations (talk) 10:07, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Your username
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Allison Wright Translations", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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 * Hi Tamzin, I can assure you that I am not being paid for editing any Wikipedia page, my edits are unbiased, and I am the only one making edits under the username "Allison Wright Translations". I cannot recall exactly, but since my name (Allison Wright) is a common one and is often confused with many others easily found with a simple Google search (the actress, the photojournalist, a composter, and another translator of the same name based in Philadelpia, USA, whereas I am resident in Portugal), I think my name "Allison Wright" was already taken when I registered with Wikipedia. I will complete the Special:GlobalRenameRequest now so that there is no room for doubt as regards my bona fides. Allison Wright Translations (talk) 09:33, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Google search shows "Allison Wright Translations" in Portugal. Theroadislong (talk) 09:48, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can confirm that the website "Allison Wright Translations" https://allisonwrighttranslations.com/ belongs to me. I have already made a request to change my Wiki username. Allison Wright Translations (talk) 12:19, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * So now we are slowly getting there, you are a professional translator and you have said that you have "translated some works authored by Hans Jörg Böhm in the past" so clearly you have a very direct conflict of interest. If the draft is accepted you will be limited to requesting changes on the talk page and not allowed to edit the article directly. Theroadislong (talk) 12:24, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response. Does this mean that I may continue to work on the draft page (assuming my name change request is approved)? Allison Wright Translations (talk) 12:34, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes. Theroadislong (talk) 12:37, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Great, thank you! Allison Wright Translations (talk) 12:43, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for putting in the rename request. Just to be clear on the policy front, in general a username like "Allison Wright Translations" would be okay, but it crossed the line into promotionality (word?) because that's how you brand yourself online. Like, I could edit as "Tamzin Programming", but if I then created a website to advertise myself as a programmer and called it that, my username would become an issue. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 23:20, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Paid editing again
As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Allison Wright Translations, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Theroadislong (talk) 09:22, 18 July 2022 (UTC)


 * As stated elsewhere in this thread, there is no paid editing, so no disclosure of this nature is necessary. Allison Wright Translations (talk) 12:22, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Allison Wright Translations. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:Hans Jörg Böhm, 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 Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * 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 Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 10:25, 18 July 2022 (UTC)


 * As previously stated in this thread, I have known Hans Jörg Böhm since 2011. I am a (sole trader) freelance translator by profession who specialises in Portuguese to English translations in the area of Portuguese viticulture and viniculture. While I have translated some works authored by Hans Jörg Böhm in the past (in 2011, 2012 and briefly in 2017), our relationship has been strictly professional for the duration of those projects. My voluntary edits on his current Draft Wiki page are being made based on my subject-matter (and linguistic) expertise. In fact, given my subject-matter expertise, it would be impossible not to have encountered Hans Jörg Böhm in the Portuguese world of wine. My current edits have a two-tiered approach (and I am currently mid-way through the first tier) 1. Cite reputable sources for all assertions made; and 2. Revise text and eliminate any assertions for which no documentary evidence exists. Finding appropriate references needs several skills which I possess: a good knowledge of Portuguese, good searching skills (finding some sources has been like locating a needle in a haystack), and the ability to translate key quotations in support of the Wiki page text. While I do not perceive a conflict of interest, since I have nothing to gain from editing this text, I understand that other might perceive a possible conflict of interest, and I have no wish to run contrary to Wikipedia policy. I am unsure how to disclose this conflict of interest, however, without, effectively, promoting the fact that I am a translator with subject-matter expertise (which is a form of self-advertising in the translator world). I have no wish to do this. I do not want to disclose a possible conflict of interest if it means that I will be prevented from completing this work. I have edited by user page to reflect the possible conflict of interest, and would be grateful if you could let me know if is acceptable.
 * (My long-term aim as an editor on Wikipedia, by the way, is to edit other English Wiki pages on Portuguese subject-matter or to link the Portuguese page with the existing English page: there is a huge general disconnect in this area.) Allison Wright Translations (talk) 11:46, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Since you say you're not being paid, your comment above is all that's strictly required to acknowledge the actual or perceived COI. (If you were being paid, you'd be required to disclose more affirmatively, as noted in the messages above.) You are welcome to continue working on the draft and, if it is accepted as an article, to make smaller edits (copy-edits, link fixes, etc.) directly and larger ones via edit request. (As a policy matter, it's not 100% forbidden to make larger edits to articles where you have a COI, but I will warn you it almost always ends badly.) The most important thing is transparency. The more transparent someone is about an actual or perceived COI, the more slack they'll be cut. And I don't think you can call that self-promotion, because the fact will only be apparent to people looking at the draft/article's talkpage. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 23:27, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you @Tamzin, for the clarification. Allison Wright - PT (talk) 06:47, 20 July 2022 (UTC)