User talk:Phillipcs

August 2022
Hello Phillipcs. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Markey Cancer Center, 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:Phillipcs. 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. PICKLEDICAE🥒 16:24, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi pickledicae -- sorry for the trouble. Yes, I am employed by UK/MCC. The information on the page is incorrect and/or needs updates. I was told we were allowed to make changes, and I was trying update it and rewrite it to be neutral. I'll add the disclosure to my talk page. How can I go about getting the edits made. We do not want the page deleted. Thank you for your help! Phillipcs (talk) 16:43, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Your disclosure does not mean you can edit the article freely, FYI. Wikipedia articles are not a place for PR or what the company/subject wants. It's also a copyright violation, which is not acceptable and even if the content were freely licensed (which it isn't), it would be completely unacceptable as promotion. We rely on what independent sources say, not the hospital or employees. PICKLEDICAE🥒 16:46, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 * The information is inaccurate and needs updated. Regardless of whether it comes from me or an independent source, it needs corrected. Who can make that happen? Phillipcs (talk) 19:51, 24 August 2022 (UTC)