User talk:ShilohBtd

Your submission at Articles for creation: Leadership Now Project (July 30)
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Hammersoft (talk) 13:39, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Paid editing
I recognize that you added a UserboxCOI template to your userpage. However, more is required of you if the following standard warning is in anyway applicable.

Hello ShilohBtd. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Leadership Now Project, 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:ShilohBtd. 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. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:40, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hammersoft,

I work for Leadership Now and figured we should have a wikipedia article (I could have plugged in at least another dozen sources from major media but I got tired), I'm definitely not being paid to do this, but I mean I work for the organization so I wanted to be upfront. Am happy to rewrite to make it more encyclopedia-ish and add more sources if that's helpful. What else do you all need from me to get this back on track?

ShilohBtd (talk) 13:57, 30 July 2021 (UTC)ShilohBtd
 * More sources can be helpful, but if the assertions in the article already are supported by a source, it's not necessary to include more sources to support those same statements. There are a number of formatting issues in the draft, but of course that's not why I declined it. The chief problem is that you have a direct conflict of interest. While it is possible to write about things with which you are closely affiliated, it is difficult to do so. You have to strip out any sense of non-neutrality in the draft (see WP:NEUTRAL), and think about what criticism there is of the group and what sources are out there to support it. It's uncommon for any significant group to not have some kind of criticism. --Hammersoft (talk) 21:00, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 09:01, 4 January 2022 (UTC)