User talk:Jlakely

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Conflict of interest
Hello, Jlakely. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article The Heartland Institute, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

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It's not completely forbidden to edit articles on which one has a conflict of interest, but you absolutely have to stick to uncontroversial edits. You will understand that it's not exactly ideal if the Director of Communications of a highly controversial, anti-social PR company makes massive changes to the article on that company directly. I have reverted them. If anything needs changing beyond updating a name or fixing a typo, propose it on the talk page and let someone else do it once there is a consensus. Hans Adler 10:41, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Misleading use of 'Minor'
Most of your edits were marked minor but not all, so you were trying to distinguish them. On the other hand, you marked some major changes as minor - clearly wrong and confusing/misleading to editors. You also failed to explain your edits in edit summaries. I would have reverted you in any case for COI issues as well as other problems. See WP:BRD please, yet another reason for you not to edit again but discuss any suggested changes on the talk page. Dougweller (talk) 13:53, 3 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Jlkaely, I see you have been editing The Heartland Institute and using the "minor edit" tag in the edit summaries. This is improper as your edits were not merely typo corrections or the like. Please stop. – S. Rich (talk) 06:09, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

August 2013
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to The Heartland Institute. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. ''Jim, when you seek to add your own name to the infobox you are promoting yourself and violating WP:COI guidelines. I urge you to read and follow these (and other WP editing) guidelines. '' – S. Rich (talk) 15:09, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Peter Gleick
Reversal of my edits of August 19 claimed "extremely biased sources and unfounded statements." False. My media sources were: HuffPost, NYTimes, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the San Jose Mercury News -- all acceptable sources at Wikipedia as "trusted." The "institutional sources" included the Pacific Institute, which was Gleick's organization, as well as The Heartland Institute and Fakegate.org (a clearing house of information from other sources and original content from Heartland). If Gleick's organization is cited, then so should Heartland with factual information. If this revision of Gleick's page is illegitimate because the sources are "extremely biased," then his entire entry should be taken down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎ Jlakely (talk • contribs) 01:39, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Jlakely. 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 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.  You've already been advised about COI requirements relating to the Heartland Institute, please take care to avoid editing or creating articles relating to that organization, and if proposing changes on the talk pages of such articles, disclose your conflict of interest as above. In particular, comply fully with Biography of living persons policy, and avoid giving undue weight to fringe views promoted by the Heartland Institute. . . . dave souza, talk 08:38, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is International Conference on Climate Change. Thank you. Adakiko (talk) 11:36, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021
Hello Jlakely. The nature of your edits 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:Jlakely. 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. BilledMammal (talk) 11:43, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

LOOK: I am obviously the VP of The Heartland Institute. I'm in their employ. Nothing I've posted on our page involving our International Conferences on Climate Change involve more than updated information and links. What's the problem?