User talk:Jon1Ward

Paid editing
Hello Jon1Ward. 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:Jon1Ward. 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. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:56, 17 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Hammersoft - I dont get paid directly or indirectly for this, but I do work for Sidecar Health in another role. I have also been a customer for 2+ years, and I know alot about health insurance.  There were blatant inaccuracies in the article that I tried to fix but I wasn't trying to subvert the process.  I didn't see a talk page.  I apologize if I did something wrong (I searched, and couldn't find any prohibition).  Should I fill out the form? Jon1Ward (talk) 19:20, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Since you work for the company in question, it creates a direct conflict of interest. Since you indirectly benefit from the company doing well in the marketplace, you can be construed as being paid for this work. I recommend you comply with the WP:PAID requirements. --Hammersoft (talk) 00:21, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * ok I will do shortly. Thank you for your direction on this.  I used my name, and really am not trying to mislead anyone here. Jon1Ward (talk) 18:33, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I understand. Please don't construe my comments as negative. The first post here is a standard message regarding our paid editor policy. What I've seen of your edits so far seems fair and balanced. Just please understand we take conflict of interest here seriously, so it's good to err on the side of caution. --Hammersoft (talk) 00:51, 20 May 2022 (UTC)