User talk:Cmwitten

Welcome!
Thanks for your helpful and friendly response. If I cite Army.mil and DoD news stories,in my edits, will that suffice or must it come from news outlets? Cmwitten (talk) 14:38, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Affiliation with Mark Milley
If you have an affiliation with Mark Milley, you need to declare so per WP:COI. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 16:53, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

I do work for DoD and noticed this Wiki page did not reflect much of General Milley's tenure as Chief of Staff of the Army. There were other Wiki editors who also commented on this fact. Would appreciate your help and guidance on the best way to submit proposed additions to his page that are neutral and reliably sourced as I sought to do. I also recall your edit re his refusal to testify back in June following his appearance in Lafayette Square with President Trump. He did appear before Congress with Secretary of Defense Esper to testify July 9, 2020 yet the Wiki was never updated to reflect that.

Would you consider updating it for accuracy? Here are a few articles that confirm the hearing occurred July 9, 2020:

Cmwitten (talk) 13:09, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

COI
You have been mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Mark_Milley Snooganssnoogans (talk) 23:03, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

January 2021
Hello Cmwitten. 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:Cmwitten. 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. Possibly (talk) 23:12, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Shorter version of above: You need stop editing Mark Milley's page as you have a COI. Second, you can propose changes on the article's talk page. Third, since you are a DOD emplyee, we consider it to be paid editing if you edit DOD subjects. You need to disclose that on your user page as described above. We are interested in neutrality, which is generally not obtained by employees of the article subject editing the page. Possibly (talk) 23:16, 28 January 2021 (UTC)