User talk:Francophile9

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Francophile9. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. SmartSE (talk) 18:21, 17 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Given that you disclosed here that you work for the parent company of Elsevier, you should not be making edits such as this at Sci-Hub as you clearly have a COI. SmartSE (talk) 18:23, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Fair enough. By extension, does that mean that people who are paid to promote open access and denigrate academic publishers also have a conflict of interest when editing the Elsevier page and their edits should also be removed?

Talk:Elsevier
Hello, you might want to give a look over there. Nemo 06:02, 24 April 2021 (UTC)