User talk:Sophiaatwood

Hello Sophiaatwood. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to David Sarwer, 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:Sophiaatwood. 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. Melcous (talk) 22:51, 25 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, I just added that disclosure to my talk page. I work for Temple University under David as a research assistant, so I was just helping update his page, I am not getting directly paid by him to edit it. Will my edits come back? Sophiaatwood (talk) 13:51, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding the disclosure, which is required as you are editing in the course of your employment. as such, the best thing you can do is not directly the article, but instead use the talk page to suggest changes. This can most easily be done using the Edit Request Wizard. Melcous (talk) 14:31, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I've also removed the nowiki formatting on your user page, so the disclosure templates show up correctly, and will move the template from the article as well. Melcous (talk) 14:32, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for the help. This is my first time using Wikipedia as an editor, so I am not yet aware of all the rules. Will using the talk page to suggest changes. Sophiaatwood (talk) 14:35, 28 August 2023 (UTC)