User talk:Spalan

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I note that your only edits to wikipedia are about the society and that you started editing within minutes of blocked user. Operating multiple accounts or editing in concert with others is not allowed.

It is clear from your editing pattern and the language of your post to me that you are editing on behalf of the Society for Experimental Finance. You have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, 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. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:   . If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message. Also read the following regarding writing an article:


 * you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation or company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, logs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company or organisation claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls


 * Your text was almost entirely unsourced apart from a ref to a closely related publication, and references for supposed awards which were just links to the publications, and didn't verify the awards. So no independent third-party refs at all.


 * The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:
 * significant coverage in
 * independent,
 * multiple,
 * reliable,
 * secondary sources.
 * Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability.


 * It's all about missions and aims. To show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as where it's headquartered (not mentioned in the text) the number of employees, funding or expenditure. The claimed number of members is unsourced.


 * You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.


 * Your text is basically "This is what we say we do" without any real facts.


 * There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
 * You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.


 * I didn't check all the text, but the leads to the Honorary Membership and Prizes and awards sections, at least, were copied verbatim from a site marked © 2010-2023 Society for Experimental Finance. The lack of refs and wikilinks is usually indicative of copyright violations

For legal reasons, we do not restore copyright violations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:04, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Not reasons for deletion, but your article was badly underlinked, eg Innsbruck and Chapman University have articles, and you shouldn't have endless lists of people who don't have Wikipedia articles linked to them.


 * Thank you for the very clear listing of points we need to address.
 * To reply to the COI question - neither I nor are employed by the Society. The Society is a registered association according to Austrian law, which means it is something like a club. All the members are researchers for different universities worldwide and the Society was formed mainly to help these researchers organize meetings to discuss research. For a few years the Society has now also gotten funding (from Chapman University) and uses its own funds to create an award for research on experimental finance, named after the Nobel prize laureate Vernon L. Smith, a professor at Chapman University and a member of the Society. These awards goes to any researchers who do important work in the area, irrespective of whether they are or are not society members. The association does not have any employees or pay anybody for the work done for the society - rather, we are all volunteers and it's the universities that pay our salaries to teach, conduct research and work together with other researchers to achieve scientific progress. I have now also created a (rudimentary) user page to mention my university affiliations and the Society membership. spalan (talk) 13:03, 2 November 2023 (UTC)