User talk:YourPrincessLeia

May 2022
Hello YourPrincessLeia. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Bastyr University, 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:YourPrincessLeia. 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. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:41, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Bastyr University
In this edit, your edit summary states The main (Introductory) page needs some work but I am passing this task to the PR Director (of Bastyr University). Please understand that the PR Director of Bastyr University has a conflict of interest regarding this subject, and should not edit this page. Presumably, if you are in a position to pass the task along to them, you also have a conflict of interest. Rather than either of you editing the page directly, you should make edit requests at the article's talk page. Your requests should address factual errors and should be accompanied by reliable sources to verify your facts in favor of those stated in the article. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 17:43, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello WikiDan61, thank you for taking the time. No affiliation with Bastyr, other than I can see a tiny part of the campus from my home on the other side of Lake Washington. Your message does help explain why Bastyr replied with the message that “not available for outside web sources or pages” and “…more information about the University can be found on our webpage…” which wasn’t my point at all! Anyway, it’s a much beloved institution in our neck of the woods and I was wondering why there was an inappropriate opinion piece on the main page instead of just information regarding the actual University. If you are “guarding” this arbitrary content, I’m not too good on the battle field and will leave it alone for now. But I do encourage you to move it if you wouldn’t mind too much.

Very best regards and thank you again for taking the time. It’s kind of reassuring that businesses and non-profits can’t write their own content.

By the way…how did it look when I was finished? Did I space it correctly when I folded into the Criticism section? I had to get to my class (I’m a Prof at UW) and I didn’t have time to double check it.

YourPrincessLeia (talk) 21:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Per WP:LEDE, the an article is supposed to summarise the main content of the article, and it's certainly relevant that Bastyr teaches and researches topics that are widely considered to be pseudoscience, quackery and fake by the scientific and medical communities. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:38, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I've opened a discussion of the matter at Talk:Bastyr University. I invite both of you to participate there. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:02, 10 May 2022 (UTC)