User talk:Corey Goldstone

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Corey Goldstone. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Campaign Legal Center, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI 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, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Marquardtika (talk) 17:53, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Please do not make direct edits to Campaign Legal Center, as you appear to have a conflict of interest in regards to that page. Instead, you can propose edits on the talk page and request that other editors implement them through our edit request process. Let me know if you have any questions, thank you. Marquardtika (talk) 03:36, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Marquardtika (talk) 22:05, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Disclosure of employment
Hello Corey Goldstone. 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 Campaign Legal Center, and that 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:Corey Goldstone. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. As a sign of good faith, you should also disclose if you were paid for your past edits Jack Evans (D.C. politician), as there is off-wiki evidence which shows that you were associated with him. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:17, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Included a disclaimer about where I work.
Hello user, thank you for flagging this. I have added a disclaimer in my profile about my employment. I have also mentioned that I am not being compensated for making updates on Wikipedia. I'm just now seeing these messages, so thank you for your patience as I learn about how to properly use this platform.


 * Please refer to Paid-contribution disclosure, which states:
 * Payment or compensation: money, goods or services. Users who are compensated for any publicity efforts related to the subject of their Wikipedia contributions are deemed to be paid editors, regardless of whether they were compensated specifically to edit Wikipedia.


 * Your position with this organization is one of public relations. Unless you are saying that your job is an unpaid volunteer position, then you are considered to be a paid editor and are required to make the appropriate disclosure. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 22:13, 6 June 2018 (UTC)