User talk:JamesFriends

Hello JamesFriends. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Friends-International, 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:JamesFriends. 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. Melcous (talk) 11:44, 6 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, thank you for your message. I am a paid employee of Friends-International, however I am not being specifically reimbursed for revising the page. I edited it as much of the information on there was really out of date. I am of course happy to complete the disclosure if necessary, at FI we pride ourselves on supporting transparency in all areas of our communication. Thank you. 45.118.77.156 (talk) 12:05, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response (noting that you have made it while logged out - please ensure you login to your account before editing). As an employee, you are considered a paid editor under wikipedia's guidlines and so should make the appropriate disclosure. You are then asked not to edit the article directly. You should instead propose changes on the talk page, providing reliable, independent, secondary sources to verify information. This can most easily be done using the Edit Request Wizard. Thank you Melcous (talk) 12:11, 6 September 2023 (UTC)