User talk:Elizabeth at Walmart

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Elizabeth at Walmart! Thank you for your contributions. Not many people say that they may have a WP:COI, it is great to see that, and also that you know you should stick to talk pages! I am LakesideMiners and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!  LakesideMiners My Talk Page 17:42, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
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September 2020
Hello Elizabeth at Walmart. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:John Furner, 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:Elizabeth at Walmart. 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. ~ Amkgp 💬  15:10, 16 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note! To be clear: I have disclosed that I am an employee of Walmart. In addition to my user name and the declaration on my user page, I left a comment on the AfC submission that reads, "On behalf of my employer Walmart, I am submitting a draft article for John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S. Because of my conflict of interest, I have kept this draft brief, neutral, and sourced to independent sources" and I posted the Connected_contributor_(paid) on the draft's Talk page. As you suggested, though, I will also include Paid to my user page. Hope that clarifies things! Elizabeth at Walmart (talk) 22:08, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: John Furner has been accepted
 John Furner, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. It is commonplace for new articles to start out as stubs and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_talk/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=John_Furner help desk] . Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider.

Thanks again, and happy editing!  DGG ( talk ) 01:41, 27 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks DGG for your review and approval of this drafted article for creation. I will continue to work with editors on the John Furner article's Talk page to suggest future changes, so as to adhere to the site's COI guidelines. Elizabeth at Walmart (talk) 13:14, 29 September 2020 (UTC)