User talk:Envirome

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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:52, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

September 2023
Hello Envirome. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Aruni Bhatnagar, 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:Envirome. 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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:52, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Aruni Bhatnagar (September 26)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.


 * Draft:Aruni Bhatnagar may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:53, 26 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @DoubleGrazing. As you can tell, I'm a new contributor to Wikipedia. Thanks in advance for your patience and apologies for the disclosure oversight.
 * I'm an employee of the University of Louisville and was asked to create a Wikipedia profile for Aruni Bhatnagar who heads up the University of Louisville's Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute.
 * Here is the same information in the format requested:
 * In terms of the copyrighted material question, we (UofL) supplied the biographical information for Dr. Bhatnagar to the People Behind the Science podcast, and they are using that material with our permission. How do we address this? Envirome (talk) 22:09, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi,
 * I've taken the liberty of placing your paid-editing disclosure on your userpage, where it belongs. Hope that's okay. (If not, then remove or edit it as you see fit; it is, after all, your disclosure, not mine.)
 * As you mention that you have been 'instructed to write' this article, you should read this advisory essay: WP:BOSS. Please also show it to whomever tasked you with this job, so that they better understand the near-impossibility of the assignment, and how to best comply with Wikipedia policies.
 * Since 'Envirome' is the name of an organisation (assuming I got that right?), you will also need to change your username. Wikipedia user accounts are strictly for use by a single person, and usernames cannot therefore imply shared use. Please go to WP:CHU, read that page carefully, and from the 'Request pages' section select the appropriate option for requesting a new username.
 * And finally, as for your question regarding copyrighted material, we cannot accept content that is held by anyone, including you as a Wikipedia editor, under copyright, because everything in Wikipedia is by definition released to the public under a Creative Commons or other applicable licence. You can find more information on this, including on 'donating' copyright content, at WP:DCM. Essentially, this involves releasing the source material under a CC-BY-SA licence, if that is possible (which it may not be). In practice, it is probably easier to just rewrite the information from scratch, using your own words and avoiding any copying or even close paraphrasing.
 * HTH, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:59, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * HTH, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:59, 27 September 2023 (UTC)