User talk:Boat Wiki

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! S Philbrick (Talk)  21:11, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
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March 2019
Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to BoatUS. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. ''This content is in no way appropriate for an encyclopedia. We are not here to promote organizations or print what they want us to say about them. Please read WP:PUFFERY, WP:NPOV, and WP:PROMO for just a few reasons this isn't okay--independently of the copyright violation issue that appears to have already been raised with you. You must also read and comply with WP:PAID.   Julietdeltalima   (talk) '' 22:00, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello Boat Wiki. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to BoatUS, 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 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:Boat Wiki. 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.  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  22:24, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi Julie, thanks for your edits and guidance (1st time publisher here). I am employed by BoatUS and am part of the digital team. We received a note from one of our members that our Wiki page is not up to date and does not provide an accurate representation of BoatUS. Our goal here is not to advertise but to provide accurate and conclusive information about BoatUS. I will go through the "paid" disclosure process; but besides this did you have any issues with the last version I attempted to post? Boat Wiki (talk) 14:05, 22 March 2019 (UTC)Boat Wiki


 * Yes. It is written like a public-relations piece and not like an encyclopedia article.  I don't have time this week to edit it (nor is it my desire, as a volunteer, to do your work for you) but organizations frequently do not understand that, from Wikipedia's standpoint, "just providing information" is "promotion" when it is written the way this article is: a way that, consciously or not, is intended to burnish the image of the organization and make it look like a pioneer, trailblazer, etc. This is precisely why Wikipedia discourages paid and conflict-of-interest editing:  it is really, practically speaking, not possible for an organization to take the neutral encyclopedic tone we require.  I urge you to take your concerns to WP:TEAHOUSE, where editors are more readily available to provide the rather extensive level of help that is necessary here.  Thanks for your attention to this.  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  18:13, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Second identical copyright violation
You posting today at the Teahouse of copyrighted content is not acceptable. You have already had that same content (lifted directly from https://www.boatus.com/history/) removed from the BoatUS article. I have now had to delete it from the Teahouse. Whilst you may be employed by BoatUS, that does not give you the right to 'give away' their text which their website clearly states is their copyright. We takes the rights of owners very seriously, and further infringement may result in your account being blocked from editing. We expect all content added here to be reworded so that those doing the rewording (and not just close paraphrasing) have the right to licence their contributions for anyone else to use. Please also be aware that your username and that of User:MembershipUS both tend to imply shared account usage, which is, unfortunately, also not permitted. We have a one-person/one account name policy here - see WP:ISU. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 14:56, 26 March 2019 (UTC)