User talk:ParnikaG

June 2019
Hello ParnikaG. 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, 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:ParnikaG. 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. MrOllie (talk) 23:07, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello MrOllie,

Response to message from June 2019
Hello MrOllie,

Thank you for reaching out regarding concerns about me having an undisclosed financial stake. I have declared my association with one of the organizations mentioned, however the reason we made the posts was not meant to be promotional. The reason I wrote about the mental health assessments is because I believe they are making very valuable evidence-based contributions to youth mental health and suicide prevention, which are both pressing concerns in schools and youth clinics. Check Yourself and HEADSS are clinically validated assessments that would be useful for school counsellors, researchers, or clinicians to know about if they are working to promote youth mental health.

If you believe the original edits I made were overly promotional, please let me know what specifically reflected this and I would be happy to make edits. I just think it is important to get vital information about these assessments onto Wikipedia, which is a credible and trusted resource that could help save the lives of adolescents everywhere.

Thank you again,

ParnikaG (talk) 22:54, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi again MrOllie,

Another update. What do you think of the following blurb? Would this be more acceptable for the Patient-reported outcomes Wikipedia page?

PROMs in Youth behavioural health

"PROMs provide valuable insights that can have a critical impact on mental health care decisions for youth. Schools throughout King County, Washington have been using PROMs to gauge youth behavioral health with their new Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program. Using the Check Yourself screening tool developed by Seattle Children’s Hospital, King County schools are able to measure, understand, and nurture individual students’ well-being by collecting information about lifestyle, behaviour, and social determinants of health. Check Yourself uses PROMs with data analytics to identify at-risk youth so that school staff in King County can direct at-risk students to the services they need."

I took out any references to a company. Should be more factual now. Please let me know, as this is very important information that has the potential to direct clinicians to a life-saving tool.