User talk:Jessicaelandry

Central Virginia Legal Aid Society

Conflict of interest
Hello Jessicaelandry. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice. 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, and if it does not, 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, 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:. 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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:03, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Please respond. Are you being paid for these edits? --Hammersoft (talk) 14:09, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

I am not being paid for these edits. I am a volunteer intern with CVLAS and have no stake in the company. Jessicaelandry (talk) 14:15, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, but please understand you have a severe conflict of interest, and writing about CVLAS here is strongly discouraged. We welcome your edits in other areas where you do not have a conflict of interest! --Hammersoft (talk) 14:28, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

If I have a conflict of interest and the site would rather I not edit the entry, that's fine. But I'm unsure as to why there is a conflict. I'm an unpaid intern - I do not receive money in any capacity from CVLAS for any of my work. Is there a conflict just because I volunteer? Not trying to be argumentative, just trying to seek clarity, thanks. Jessicaelandry (talk) 15:10, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry I did not get back to you sooner. WP:COI covers this pretty well. In essence, if you are directly involved in XYZ you have an inherent bias regarding XYZ that a dispassionate external does not have. It is very difficult to write without that bias on subjects with which you are closely affiliated, even if you are not paid. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:16, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Understandable. I just wanted to establish that I'm not permanently employed with the organization, nor am I a long-term volunteer. My tenure with the organization will end in August. Thanks for explaining! Jessicaelandry (talk) 14:12, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc.


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