User talk:MarshaIPlevine

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Happy editing! Dronebogus (talk) 07:57, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

December 2022
Hello, I'm Adakiko. I noticed that you made a change to an article, San Francisco Pride, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Adakiko (talk) 11:39, 2 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Adakiko, I am on staff at San Francisco Pride, have for almost five years now, served as Parade Manager for 18 years before that, and was a volunteer for another 14 years prior to that. I am their reliable source, LOL. You can find me on their website at sfpride.org.
 * We've needed no other citations when updating our annual information before. Nor have we needed them to update our performers list, which I believe are the only two areas I touched recently — to get them ready for the media and our client base. Please revert your removal, thanks. MarshaIPlevine (talk) 17:11, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that on Wikipedia. There must be inline and reliable sources to serve as the basis for information in articles.  "We've needed no other citations when updating our annual information before":  That doesn't mean that this was ever acceptable nor that it is acceptable now.  Many problematic things can go missed due to the large number of edits made to Wikipedia daily combined with the small number of experienced editors.
 * The biggest, and most concerning, issue here is your serious conflict of interest along with undiclosed paid editing and the implication that this has been occurring for some time now by you and/or other members of your organization. Undisclosed paid editing a violation of the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use along with the English Wikipedia's policies.  I highly recommend you, and anyone associated with your organization, cease your editing of this article and instead limit your contributions to edit requests on the relevant talk pages.  I will be posting a message below with more information and about actions you must take.  Another editor has already posted information about conflicts of interest.
 * It is important to note that San Francisco Pride is an encyclopedia article and is therefore meant to provide neutral, independent, and properly-sourced information about its subject. It is not a social media page or a vehicle for you to furnish updates about your organization.  No edits to Wikipedia articles should be done for the benefit of the media or the articles' subjects' client bases.  Please see What Wikipedia is not for more information.
 * The reversions by Adakiko along with those by other users were more than appropriate and will not be reverted. Uhai (talk) 17:40, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Wow, that's a big leap assumption there... I am not being paid or compensated to update WIKI for SF Pride. And I think over the last two decades years, I have only updated the page less than a handful of times, and, honestly, not only did I not have any idea this was a frowned upon practice, given I am potentially one of the most knowledgeable people about the organization currently and in its history, surely it made sense logically for me to update this information.  I only know of one other person who has done so, and fortunately I guess, they are not directly affiliated with SF Pride.  Thanks for explaining this, and while I am patently clear this is not social media, and is a resource, edits were done in the interests of making sure YOU had current information for others. MarshaIPlevine (talk) 18:12, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Are you a paid employee of SF Pride? If so, then your edits would be considered paid edits regardless of whether you have been explicitly asked to edit Wikipedia as part of your job duties.  Your mention that you are now a staff member after having previously been a volunteer is the reason for my assumption. Uhai (talk) 18:30, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello MarshaIPlevine. 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:MarshaIPlevine. 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. Uhai (talk) 17:41, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, MarshaIPlevine. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page San Francisco Pride, 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. Silikonz 💬 17:32, 2 December 2022 (UTC)