User talk:SDMcDonald1

Nomination of The SNACS Study for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The SNACS Study is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/The SNACS Study until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 22:49, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

May 2022
Hello SDMcDonald1. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to The SNACS Study, gives the you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not fully 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:SDMcDonald1. 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. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 21:19, 25 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I appreciate your time and consideration reviewing this work. To confirm, I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for these edits. ​The purpose of the wiki page is to make information ​readily available to the public. SDMcDonald1 (talk) 18:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)