User talk:Fotossinto

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Hello Fotossinto. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Wyoming Wilderness Association, 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:Fotossinto. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 22:42, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Fotossinto, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. -- VViking Talk Edits 22:44, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. -- VViking Talk Edits 22:46, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello,

I am not being paid by anybody to do these edits. This is actually a volunteering project I am doing for the WWA where no money is involved. Can I still keep editing the page? I have a few more tooics to add to it, and change pictures etc. Fotossinto (talk) 00:39, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

I am by no means profiting over this project and I am not getting paid to write any of it. I am merely updating the wikipedia page based on the WWA website.Fotossinto (talk) 02:41, 30 December 2022 (UTC)


 * First since you are volunteering you do have a Conflict of interest you will want to read the information on that. You should not be editing the article directly but should be making suggestions on the articles Talk Page. Finally utilizing the sources of the organization is not what Wikipedia is about, the organizations website is considered a Primary source. We write about what reliable sources have to say about the organization, not about what the organization has to say about itself. I think that covers most everything. -- VViking Talk Edits 21:24, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Understood. How could I update the topics on WWA then, if the information is only in their webpage? Fotossinto (talk) 21:40, 30 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Not to sound heartless, but if the information is only on their webpage and not in Reliable Sources, there is not much you can do. This is why organizations have webpages and facebook so they can post what they want on those sites. Wikipedia typically posts what reliable 3rd parties write about the organization. -- VViking Talk Edits 21:46, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello again,
 * How should I best approach suggesting the changes on the talk page? I found other sources (not their own website), and I would like very much to update the WWA Wiki page.
 * I think the information currently on Wikipedia is old and not accurate to what the organization is doing nowadays. Fotossinto (talk) 17:41, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Got it! Thank you.

So, if I find other sources and give the suggestions on the talk page, how would somebody change the wiki page? Fotossinto (talk) 21:48, 30 December 2022 (UTC)