User talk:CatalinaAcrossTheSea

June 2019
Hello CatalinaConservancy. 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 Catalina Island Conservancy, 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:CatalinaConservancy. 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. TheAwesome Hwyh  19:56, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello! I'm not paid to advertise the Conservancy. Full disclosure, I do work for the Conservancy and, as such, made sure to try to keep the updated information as factual as possible. There is a new building open that is the new center for operations. It does have a shop in it and educational panels. It also is where people go to get hiking permits and biking permits. There is a restaurant and plein air gallery on the second floor. And the third floor has a native plant garden. Of course I'm completely open to anything that would make the connotation more in line with what Wikipedia expects, but I really did try to toe the line in sticking to the facts. New to this whole editing pages thing. Thanks for your help and keeping wikipedia factual. CatalinaConservancy (talk) 20:12, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Since you work for the Conservancy, you have a conflict of interest by definition and you must disclose that fact on your userpage, see WP:PAID. Instead of editing the page directly, you should request an edit on the article's talk page with the template. You also MUST change your username (accounts are for individual editors, not organizations), see WP:CHU/S. Thanks, shoy (reactions) 12:15, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Shoy and TheAwesomeHwy, for the information! I've requested a change of username and appreciate knowing how to edit properly moving forward. CatalinaConservancy (talk) 12:38, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Your username
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "CatalinaConservancy", 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, 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, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 21:53, 24 June 2019 (UTC)