User talk:David.gruber

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Hello, David.gruber, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Draft:Casa Mono & Bar Jamón, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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).

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:56, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Casa Mono & Bar Jamón moved to draftspace
Casa Mono & Bar Jamón appears to have been created by a paid employee without appropriate disclosure, in violation of our Terms of Use. Please read our conflict of interest guideline, and remember that Wikipedia does not tolerate promotion of any kind. The page also does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please follow the prompts on the Articles for Creation template at the top of the page. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:55, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Paid editor disclosure
Hello David.gruber. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Mario Batali. 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. 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, 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:David.gruber. 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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:14, 7 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Dear

Thank you for your helpful directions. I regretfully made the mistake regarding the COI guidelines on Wikipedia. I have added the required disclosure to the three Wikipedia pages I have generated: Babbo (Restaurant, Del Posto (Restaurant), and Casa Mono & Bar Jamón. I was wondering what the next steps are to get the three pages published into mainspace, as they are all currently in draftspace. I also have a few more restaurants I wish to be published on Wikipedia and am wondering how I can do that without breaking the Wikipedia guidelines.

Thanks again, (David.gruber (talk) 15:36, 8 August 2017 (UTC))
 * Thank you, David. You might like also to make a declaration on your user page. I don't quite know how to advise you on the articles. Wikipedia does not allow promotion of any kind, and clearly you are here to promote the activities and restaurants of the B&B group. On the other hand, editing by conflict-of-interest editors is – for now – tolerated in draft space provided all necessary disclosure has been made. Clearly there's a bit of inconsistency there. May I suggest that, at a minimum, you (a) refrain completely from editing any article about the group, its staff or its activities; (b) use the talk-page to request any changes you want made, taking care to declare your COI with any request; and (c) ensure that any edit you make in draft space is entirely neutral in tone? An alternative approach which is sometimes advised is to sit back and wait for independent Wikipedia editors to think the various businesses are interesting and important enough to deserve an article; in the long run, that could lead to a better overall result. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:37, 8 August 2017 (UTC)