User talk:Emlouday

July 2021
Hello Emlouday. 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:Emlouday. 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. Sasquatch t&#0124;c 09:45, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Dear Sasquatch,

I am not receiving any compensation for updating the Wikipedia page of Geneva Call. I am simply updated outdated information using their website.
 * Please red the policy at WP:PAID which I have linked above carefully and comply with all the rules. Specifically, we note that "Interns are considered employees for this purpose. If they are directed or expected to edit Wikipedia as part of an internship, they must disclose.". Sasquatch t&#0124;c 09:59, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Dear Sasquatch,

Can you tell me if I have inserted the information into my profile properly?
 * Looks good. I would spend some time reviewing our policies and guidelines carefully before continuing as you are new here and appear to be attempting to be editing in a conflict of interest situation. Additionally, the current article at Geneva Call has some significant problems around tone and neutral point of view. It is also lacking in reliable sources. I am going to take a crack at making it read less like an advertisement/marketing piece in the upcoming days. As a reminder, we strongly suggest that you do not edit pages you have a conflict with directly. If you propose changes to an affected article, you can use the template. Post it on the talk page and make your suggestion underneath it. Sasquatch  t&#0124;c 10:08, 20 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Please stop making edits like inserting the mission statement into the lede. That is not appropriate encyclopedic content. Again, please do not add anything directly into the article until you have familiarized yourself with our polices. Sasquatch t&#0124;c 10:09, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Please review point 5 of WP:PROMO carefully. Specifically, Wikipedia is not here to be an extension of an organization's PR. If your sole purpose is to use Wikipedia as such, this is simply not the right platform for what you are doing. I am off to bed for now but I strongly suggest you consider what your actual goals are at Wikipedia and if they are aligned with our goals to create an encyclopedia. Sasquatch t&#0124;c 10:20, 20 July 2021 (UTC)