User talk:LisaP LBJ

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, LisaP LBJ. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 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. Longhair\talk 02:41, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021
Hello LisaP LBJ. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 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:LisaP LBJ. 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. Longhair\talk 02:42, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 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:LisaP LBJ, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Longhair\talk 02:45, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, LisaP LBJ, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Hi Longhair!
Please help me with... My apologies! I was charging full steam ahead and didn't check my email until you'd posted the flag on the page of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. I wasn't trying to avoid the policies.

Thank you for your help. I was trying to correct some outdated information about research centers -- all of which I got from the school's website. I do work for the LBJ School, and of course should have checked to make sure I could edit information on the page as an employee. I have disclosed the relationship on my page.

Can I remove the tag at the top of the page? Or can we revert to the page pre-edits?

Thanks.

LisaP LBJ (talk) 03:08, 1 September 2021 (UTC) LisaP LBJ (talk) 03:08, 1 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Editors with a conflict of interest may request edits to articles where a conflict exists at the article talk page. I'll revert your edits now and remove the paid contributions notice. Thanks. -- Longhair\talk 03:44, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

paid content tag
If we remove my changes, is it possible to remove the paid content tag at the top of the page for the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs?

LisaP LBJ (talk) 03:13, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

removing a paid content tag
Hi -- I know my question was reviewed, but it hasn't been answered. Is it possible for me to revert to the page before my edits and remove the content? I'm happy to bow out and not edit any more to eliminate the COI concerns. I just didn't realize the specifics of COI and would really like to not have that paid content tag on the page any more. How can I clean up my mistake?

Thanks.

LisaP LBJ (talk) 03:24, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Dear Longhair: THANK YOU!!!
I appreciate your help! I will go in and request edits per the Wikipedia rules. Sorry for the back-and-forth. Will not make the same mistake again.

LisaP LBJ (talk) 03:48, 1 September 2021 (UTC)


 * All the best. I've provided the link to request edits in my reply above. -- Longhair\talk 03:49, 1 September 2021 (UTC)