User talk:Suzanneppalmer

Hello, Suzanneppalmer. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:49, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

You need to disclose your employment on your user page
Hello Suzanneppalmer. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Suzanneppalmer. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:49, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

I do not have a financial stake in publishing this page nor am I attempting to edit an article (there is none to edit). The client retained my company for other non-related services, but also asked us to identify additional sources in order to publish their article, as their prior attempt to publish was unsuccessful for insufficient broad sources. I am merely fact-finding and information gathering on process-related matters, and not in a position to attempt to publish anything on their behalf. Does this kind of activity need a disclosure if I am only trying to understand the process to pass along to the client rather than attempting to publish/edit an article?

Suzanneppalmer (talk) 18:48, 4 September 2018 (UTC)Suzanne Palmer
 * In this post, you said I was hired by Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts to assist in getting their Wiki page published. You are a paid editor by Wikipedia's standards.  You need to disclose your employment as well as let your employer and their client know that they will need to disclose theirs if they create accounts. Ian.thomson (talk) 19:02, 4 September 2018 (UTC)