User talk:EditorofWorldAffairs

AfC notification: Draft:World Affairs Council of Houston has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:World Affairs Council of Houston. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 08:44, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: World Affairs Council of Houston (March 16)
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Theroadislong (talk) 08:22, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Paid editing
Hello EditorofWorldAffairs. 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:EditorofWorldAffairs. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 08:48, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

RESPONSE:

No, I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I am an unpaid intern at the World Affairs Council of Houston and a student at a University. If this goes against policy please let me know.EditorofWorldAffairs (talk) 14:40, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * In the Wikipedia universe, being an unpaid intern counts as being compensated. As described above, requires you state your connection to the topic on your User page. WP:PAID editors are allowed to create articles, but through the above-described articles for creation process. David notMD (talk) 15:34, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:World Affairs Council of Houston
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 08:02, 22 August 2021 (UTC)