User talk:IODE member

November 2022
Hello IODE member. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, 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:IODE member. 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. &mdash; Ingenuity (talk &bull; contribs) 14:56, 8 November 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:IODE member, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. &mdash; Ingenuity (talk &bull; contribs) 17:02, 8 November 2022 (UTC)


 * An elected non-paid member of the Board of Directors for IODE Canada. My role is Director of Communications and Public Relations. IODE member (talk) 17:36, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for affirming your conflict of interest with Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire; you should not directly edit that article, although you may request edits at Talk:Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. —C.Fred (talk) 17:40, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Can you please explain why we cannot edit directly on our page? How else will the edit/correction be made? IODE member (talk) 20:37, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * As noted, individuals with a conflict of interest should not edit the articles with which they have conflicts directly, because there is the appearance (if not also the fact) that they cannot maintain neutrality in their writing. Instead, you must request edits at the articles' talk pages. You can use the request edit to draw attention to your request. An independent editor will review your request and the sources you supply to back up the edit and, if they are in order, make the change for you. —C.Fred (talk) 20:48, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you do not violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. —C.Fred (talk) 18:35, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

 You have been blocked from editing from certain namespaces ((Article)) for a period of 31 hours for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. —C.Fred (talk) 18:48, 8 November 2022 (UTC)