User talk:WildlifeConservationNetwork

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Hello WildlifeConservationNetwork. 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:WildlifeConservationNetwork. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 21:40, 13 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, I apologize if I did anything incorrectly. I was not paid by the Wildlife Conservation Network to update their page for them, I am an employee and we recently noticed that our Wikipedia page is very out of date. So I was merely trying to add more information about our organization to our page. It wasn't meant to be shady or inappropriate; I am happy to disclose that it was edited by an employee of the organization, and comply with whatever guidelines Wikipedia enforces. We just want there to be accurate information about what our organization does, and currently, our Wikipedia page is not accurate/is very out-of-date. I added extensive edits to help give more clarity to your users about what our organization is about, where we work, who are partners are, etc.
 * Please tell me how to make these edits while complying with your guidelines. I really hope all the edits I made have not been deleted, as I spent quite a few hours on them and none of that information is meant to sound like an advertisement or like I'm not someone linked to the company; I am trying to give an accurate, detailed overview of our organization without any smoke and mirrors. Please let me know how I can best do this, thank you. WildlifeConservationNetwork (talk) 21:47, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

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Hello, WildlifeConservationNetwork. 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 conflict of interest 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:


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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.-- VViking Talk Edits 21:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Viewmont Viking. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. -- VViking Talk Edits 21:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Viewmont Viking. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the main body of an article. Generally, any relevant external links should be listed in an "External links" section at the end of the article and meet the external links guidelines. Links within the body of an article should be internal Wikilinks. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. -- VViking Talk Edits 21:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

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