User talk:PatientWorthy

October 2019
Hello PatientWorthy. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Acromegaly, 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:PatientWorthy. 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. ''Maybe you shouldn't be creating links to domains that match your username. You need to declare your paid editing status, and probably change your username. '' Jorm (talk) 18:58, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I'm MrOllie. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links.  MrOllie (talk) 19:05, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Good Afternoon MrOllie. talk I guess I do not understand why my link was not allowed. There is no sponsorship and we are not paid for what we do at Patient Worthy. We are an informational web site for Patients with Rare Diseases. We scour the internet and find information about rare diseases and gather them in one place to disseminate information. I was trying to put external links on the wikipedia disease page, so people who have this condition might be able to find more and updated information about the disease. If this is not allowed, we will not try to link the pages, we were truly just trying to get information out to people who might not find it any other way. PatientWorthy Talk


 * Wikipedia generally does not host links to sites that duplicate what our article content is or should be (See WP:LINKSTOAVOID point #1). In most subjects I'd say we could use your site as a citation for any unique information, but medical content has special sourcing requirements on Wikipedia, so in this case I'm afraid we should not do that either. - MrOllie (talk) 19:36, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you MrOllie. talk for the explanation and update. Is there any arena on wikipedia that you think we would be able to help patients with rare diseases gather more or easier access to information? We try to just get the information out there, and obviously wikipedia is where most people go to when looking up information on a topic. Again, we really do not want to break any rules, just help disseminate helpful information (some of these rare disease affect <1000 people world wide and getting information is nearly impossible for them). If there is some way we can share this information, that would be great. If this is a no go, we understand. As a general rule, we don't even have advertising on our web page because this is not about making $. Again, thank you for your help and information. PatientWorthy Talk

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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