User talk:Hjartberg

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Hjartberg. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, 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);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. MarioGom (talk) 19:28, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I have no external relationship with Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan. As a journalist I have interviewed other Kurdish organisations. But as a journalist, I do not take a stand in the conflict between Kurds. --Hjartberg (talk) 07:41, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , thank you for clarifying. The reason I contacted you is because someone reported a case of undisclosed paid editing at . There are documents suggesting that Cogent Law Group was contracted by the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan to edit a Wikipedia page. Since Cogent Law Group is likely acting as an intermediary for contracting services in the US, it is likely that they have resorted to a ORM or marketing agency or to a freelancing site like Upwork. Note that the report did not include any claim about you, and I notified you based on the article's history looking for new users with dates matching the document. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Best, --MarioGom (talk) 15:28, 21 April 2020 (UTC)