User talk:Brandon D23

April 2024
Hello Brandon D23. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, 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 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 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:Brandon D23. 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. 331dot (talk) 19:35, 26 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * I work for Bassett Healthcare Network, which hopes to edit this Wikipedia page to provide a more accurate representation of our health care system to the public. Please let me know what needs to be done in order to make our edits live. Thank you! Brandon D23 (talk) 19:41, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * You first must make the Terms of Use required paid editing disclosure on your user page, see WP:PAID for instructions.
 * You should generally not directly edit about your organization, but you may make formal edit requests(click for instructions) on the article talk page, detailing changes you feel are needed. However, the text you added will not be accepted as it was; Wikipedia articles summarize what independent reliable sources say about the topic, not what the topic wants to say about itself(which you can do on your own website). If there are errors, however, we want to know what they are. 331dot (talk) 19:46, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the information!
 * This page that we're trying to edit is for 1 of our 5 hospitals. I don't believe there is technically any incorrect information on this page, besides being a very bear-bones description.
 * Ideally, we'd like there to be a page for our network in general, which is what our website encapsulates (IE instead of this "Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital" - which should be called "Bassett Medical Center"; we'd have a new page titled "Bassett Healthcare Network," which the copy we're trying to get published is accurate of).
 * Is there a way to create a new page for Bassett Healthcare Network with the information we'd like to include? Or would that need to be created by an outside source? I'm asking because, if possible, I believe we'd like to have the main Bassett Healthcare Network page, then have subpages for this "Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital" / "Bassett Medical Center" content, and possibly create additional subpages for our other 4 hospitals.
 * If the content needs to be vetted by an outside source, could we supply the copy and then have an outside source vett it?
 * Appreciate your help with this! Brandon D23 (talk) 14:42, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * For there to be an article about the network, there must be independent reliable sources that give the network significant coverage- coverage beyond merely describing its activities and offerings- about the network itself, not just its facilities. For example, there is Texas Tech University and the Texas Tech University System because there are sources that discuss the system and its members separately from each other.
 * You are(once you make the paid editing disclosure) allowed to use the Article Wizard to create and submit a draft, if you have at least three independent reliable sources with significant coverage that you can summarize in a draft. If you ask someone else to do this, that will just transfer the conflict of interest to them. 331dot (talk) 14:59, 3 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Any topic must be sufficiently notable to merit a standalone article on Wikipedia. For businesses and organizations, this is governed by the notability criteria for companies and organizations. Each of the entities you describe would have to be independently notable to merit separate articles. We don't allow separate articles for each branch/division/subsidiary of an organization unless that has acquired enough independent coverage to merit it.
 * We also have no interest in what a company or organization wishes to say about itself. What matters to us is what reliable and independent sources have chosen on their own to publish about it. Articles must only summarize this type of coverage, with perhaps a small amount of plainly factual information from the company itself (see WP:PRIMARY). This helps to guarantee the neutrality of the information.
 * You should understand that a company has no right of ownership or control over articles about it. You can make suggestions for improvements, but you cannot insist that it remain at a version that you prefer. Wikipedia articles are editable by anyone at any time, and can change over time, sometimes substantially. We assume that others edit in good faith unless there is proof to the contrary, in which case those edits can be reverted.
 * Finally, if you are contemplating using a third-party to write content on your behalf, then I would discourage you from doing so. They would also have a conflict of interest and be bound by the same paid editing disclosure requirements as mentioned above. Some unscrupulous individuals advertise themselves as "professional" Wikipedia writers who deceptively guarantee that their edits will be accepted, when in reality that is not a promise they can ever keep. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:13, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Please have a look at FAQ/Article subjects before deciding on how to proceed. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:13, 3 May 2024 (UTC)