User talk:Wikischolar-orgmgt

September 2023
Hello Wikischolar-orgmgt. 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 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:Wikischolar-orgmgt. 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. 331dot (talk) 12:51, 21 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I have reviewed your message above. I have no financial interest of any kind related the topic of this article.  I made these edits as I am a retired college professor that has done research in the Ordway Tead papers at Cornell University.  I just signed up to be a Wikipedia reviewer and the first article I read was on Tead and made the edits to his article as my very first edits to his article as I am familiar with material about him from my past research.  I plan to make more extensive revisions to this article as I have much more information about him and his contributions to management thought.
 * Today I just did a few edits to Richard B. Gregg, another individual that I have done research on in the past and will be adding much more information on him as I have time.
 * I have a number of topics that I have unique expertise on due to my past research as a professor of management. Now that I am retired, I want to contribute this as I have time to various Wikipedia articles, thus the reason I signed up as an editor.
 * I appreciate your work to keep Wikipedia free from bias!
 * Please let me know if you have any other questions at all and I will be glad to respond. Wikischolar-orgmgt (talk) 14:21, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your answer. I asked because your username includes "orgmgt" which suggests that you represent the management of an organization.  But since you don't, no problem. 331dot (talk) 14:23, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
 * No problem, I completely understand. FYI, the "orgmgt" is in my name because I wanted to use the name Wikischolar - as that is my goal to bring a scholarly perspective in the edits I make and, in the articles, I plan to contribute.  Of course, the Wikischolar name was probably taken long ago, so I added "orgmgt" as organizations and management have been the realm of my practice and academic experience over my career.
 * Thanks again for the work you and the other editors do! Wikischolar-orgmgt (talk) 14:44, 21 September 2023 (UTC)