User talk:Wasabisf

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jon Sims Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts (March 18)
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Jamiebuba (talk) 09:09, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Jon Sims Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Jon Sims Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 20:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

paid editing
Hello Wasabisf. The nature of your edits 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 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 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:Wasabisf. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 20:15, 19 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I am not directly or indirectly being compensated by the Jon Sims Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts. I am a volunteer serving on their board. All of the board members are volunteers. Does this provide sufficient disclosure? If not, what else should I do?
 * Are there any other issues with this draft page which I need to correct? If so, please let me know.
 * Wasabisf
 * Doug Litwin 2603:8001:2500:9DE8:9DFB:8:9DB:BB00 (talk) 21:25, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * You will clearly need to disclose your conflict of interest on your user page. Theroadislong (talk) 21:36, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * If being a volunteer, unpaid member of the Jon Sims Endowment Fund board of directors is a conflict of interest, I'll gladly disclose this on the page. What is the appropriate language I need to add? Thank you. 2603:8001:2500:9DE8:9DFB:8:9DB:BB00 (talk) 23:08, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * See WP:DISCLOSE for help and please remember to log in before editing. Theroadislong (talk) 07:49, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I am still really confused about what I need to do to get this Wikipedia page finalized and approved. I don't know of any conflict of interest. If I need to disclose something, please advise where and how to do this. What else do I need to do in order to finalize this page? Thanks for letting me know.
 * Doug Litwin Wasabisf (talk) 21:57, 11 May 2024 (UTC)