User talk:Mgdonohoe

May 2020
Hello, I'm HickoryOughtShirt?4. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 21:27, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello Mgdonohoe. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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:Mgdonohoe. 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. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 21:27, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

This is a mistake. Please restore my changes. I have no COI and am merely reflect organizational changes. Mgdonohoe (talk) 21:36, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The content you added was copied and pasted so I can not restore it. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 21:59, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

I am being asked by the organization that owns the content to add it here. It is also properly cited. 96.250.177.176 (talk) 22:03, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * That's not how copyright law works. We cannot accept text copied from elsewhere on the internet unless it has a suitable license, as otherwise that is a copyright violation (which is not only wrong, it's actually against the law and can result in Wikipedia being sued). If you want to reuse that text on Wikipedia, then you will be required to license the original text in such a way that anybody can do anything with that text - modify it, publish it elsewhere, remove it - and all they have to do is cite where they originally got the text from and share it under a similar license. If that's what you want, then go to the page on WP:Donating copyrighted materials - the directions there will tell you the process for proving that you wrote the original text and releasing it under the appropriate license. As well, you just said above I have no COI when you clearly have shown that you do. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 22:33, 5 May 2020 (UTC)