User talk:MaddaViv

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, MaddaViv. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:Faculty of Law, University of Graz, 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, clients, 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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:55, 5 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Dear Double Grazing,
 * this article has been published already in German, it´s a simple translation of what is already there in English so that more people can read it.
 * I´m doing this on my free time, so I would be thankful if you could simply publish it or explain to me exactly what I need to do in order to get it published.
 * Kind Regards,
 * Maddalena MaddaViv (talk) 14:32, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Firstly, your reply does not address the conflict-of-interest query in any way. Please explain clearly and unambiguously what your relationship with the organisation is, or confirm that you have no relationship.
 * Secondly, whether this topic exists in the German Wikipedia is neither here nor there, as each language version is an entirely separate project with their own rules and policies. The English-language one has higher standards of notability and referencing than any of the others (that I've been dealing with, at least), so it is perfectly possible that an article is accepted into one language version, but not accepted into the English-language one.
 * Thirdly, I would ask that you clarify your relationship, if any, with users Maddalenavivona and REWI-Dekanat. Thank you, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:13, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Dear DoubleGrazing,
 * I´m an employee of the Dean´s Office, who thought it would be nice to have our Wikipedia entry, currently only in German, translated into English. Unexpectedly, I´m doing this on my free time.
 * As far as I understand, the reason why you are rejecting my posting is that my position with the Dean´s Office might "taint" the content of the entry I´m translating. In this respect, I would like to point out that the German entry is already online since quite some time and has not been contested so far. But again, this might be due to chanche.
 * I would kindly suggest to move to the real issue here (and don´t get me wrong here, I´m all for high standards): is any of the passages in the posting untrue or uncorrect? Because it is actually this issue that is of relevance. If this is the case, I will gladly amend it.
 * Kind Regards,
 * Maddalena MaddaViv (talk) 14:54, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for confirming that you are an employee of this organisation. This being the case, the very first thing you should now do is to formally disclose your conflict of interest and paid editing status, see WP:COIPAYDISCLOSE for advice. We can deal with everything else after that. Thank you, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:05, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Dear DoubleGrazing,
 * they are not paying me for this (as I mentioned, I´m doing this on my free time), but if this moves things forward I´ll disclose this.
 * Kind REgards,
 * Maddalena MaddaViv (talk) 15:09, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, well I'm only trying to help you, but it is obviously up to you whether you wish to accept my help and advice or not. My interpretation (and it is only that) of the policy is that since you are an employee of the organisation, you come under the PAID rules, even if you're not paid specifically to edit this article. At the very least you have a general conflict of interest (which has nothing to do with payment, and instead with whether you have an external relationship with the subject, which you clearly do), which needs to be disclosed anyway. If it were me, I would want to play it safe and disclose paid editing as well, rather than risk violating the policy and possibly getting yourself sanctioned. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:16, 7 January 2023 (UTC)