User talk:Nicmartinezva

December 2017
Hello Nicmartinezva. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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, and if it does not, 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:Nicmartinezva. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. ! dave 16:49, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Nicmartinezva. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ! dave 16:49, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Institute for Women's Policy Research
Greetings -- there are still issues with copyright I am afraid. Please also read the above notices carefully, and confirm or deny whether these circumstances are correct. Thanks, ! dave  16:58, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi ! dave, I had no interest in promoting or advertising on this page, only to update language surrounding the mission statement, as described here: Our Mission. I'm new to Wikipedia and still trying to understand all of the terms. My hope is that my edits can be reversed and the original page can be restored without my edits. If there are copyright violations prior to my edits, I'm happy to help with correcting them in a way that is in line with Wikipedia's terms. Nicmartinezva (talk) 18:46, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I think, looking at the analysis of the page's content on the copyright detector, the page would require a substantial rewrite. I think a good place to start with this is for the page to be blanked, moved to draft space and then, preferably, go through the articles for creation process, whereby an authorised reviewer will accept or decline the new version of the page. Pinging, our copyright expert, for some advice on where to go here.
 * Concerning I had no interest in promoting or advertising on this page -- conflict of interest on Wikipedia does not refer to the type of content that one writes. It is plainly and purely the sort of relationship you have with a subject; if you work with the IWPR or have any close/tangiable relationship with the organisation, then you should not edit the IWPR's article directly; instead use the article's talk page by creating a new section with at the top of the section, describing the changes that you wish to make. As for me, I won't touch any article related to my job at a very famous British supermarket, for I work there.
 * Also, if you are being paid by the IWPR to implement these changes, you must go through the process of WP:COIPAYDISCLOSE to avoid running into hot water.
 * If the above two do not apply to you, please state so very clearly. We are currently experiencing a rise in undeclared paid editing and people editing in areas where they have some sort of real-life association to the topic, so I apologise for the slight scariness of all of this, but I am wanting to make sure that you are not going to get into trouble.
 * All the best, ! dave  19:39, 4 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Fantastic thanks for the clarity. I will declare my association in my user page. My greatest apologies for the confusion and I really appreciate your help. Nicmartinezva (talk) 19:46, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * No worries. If Diannaa does agree with me that this should be turned into a draft, then you do not have to undergo the unwieldy process of waiting for your edits to be added to the draft -- you can write the draft yourself, and then it will be accepted/declined by another editor. When it becomes an article is when you cannot edit it directly. Thanks for communicating with me. ! dave  19:54, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The article has been here since 2007 and should not be turned into a draft. If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at [ this temporary page]. Leave a note at Talk:Institute for Women& saying you have done so and an administrator will assess the proposed re-write and move it into article space if it's acceptable. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:07, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh alright, then we can do that then. Excellent. ! dave  06:53, 5 December 2017 (UTC)