User talk:SuziBrown

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You need to disclose your employer on your userpage
Hello SuziBrown. 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:SuziBrown. 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) 02:25, 1 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Don't add nowiki tags to everything. Those are used to disable code (nowiki = "no wiki"), which the paid notice and links needs to have active.  Ian.thomson (talk) 02:49, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

I am sorry I don't understand what you mean by don't add nowiki tags, I wasn't aware that I had added any. I have added the paid declaration, please can you tell me if I have done this correctly, thank you SuziBrown (talk) 02:57, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
 * If you look at the changes here, you'll see that I removed a bunch of tags in the code. Likewise, here, when you tried to list two articles, you put " https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1990.18.1.169 " instead of just "https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1990.18.1.169". Ian.thomson (talk) 03:15, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, I can see the nowiki tags however I didn't add the nowiki tags, how would they have gotten into the code? Would copy and pasting from a Word document to that?SuziBrown (talk) 03:21, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
 * According to Help:WordToWiki under Word2MediaWikiPlus, it is possible that text pasted from Word using this tool may have  tags. Other tools may exhibit this behavior as well. Now that you have been made aware of them, you should just need to change them to more appropriate markup before you save the changes. They are fairly harmless if you forget, but someone will have to fix them and you are a good candidate.  — jmcgnh (talk)  (contribs) 04:05, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

COI tag removed from journal article
I removed the COI template/tag from the Social Behavior article after several editors not connected to the journal made sizable cuts to the content. David notMD (talk) 14:20, 2 July 2018 (UTC)