User talk:Levydr

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Levydr, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Paid editing in WP[edit]

Hi Dave. Thanks for disclosing at your userpage at the Talk:Exelixis that you are here representing the company.

I for one really appreciate your following the PAID policy and COI guideline by disclosing and not editing directly, so thanks very much for that! And I mean that, truly.

Three things.

First, per PAID, you do need to diclose your employer as well as the client. "A communications company in Boston" doesn't get there.... Would you please complete the disclosure on your user page? Also, we have a template at Template:Paid that it is useful to us, if you put on your Userpage with your employer and client; that links your userpage to a category, Category:Paid contributors, which helps the community understand what is going on with good faith paid editing (as opposed to the "black hat" undisclosed paid editing that goes on, which is of course harder to track). I can help you implement that if you like.

Second, you and your communications company might want consider signing up to the Wikipedia:Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms which is where good faith paid editors are kind of gathering at this point.

Finally, again I really appreciate your disclosing and not editing directly. I don't know if you are aware of the background of paid editing in Wikipedia, but if you are not, I just want to be sure that you are. It is a pretty controversial thing in Wikipedia - there are some people who hate the activity and might be mean to you, and there are some who don't care, but most of the community is kind of queasy about it but tolerates it. (It is tolerated especially well when people behave as you have been, but even then it is tolerated, not loved). I have written a bunch about paid editing on my user page here: User:Jytdog#NPOV_part_2:_COI_and_advocacy_in_Wikipedia which provides some background, if you like.

Best regards Jytdog (talk) 18:56, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, Jytdog - I went ahead and added that disclosure to better show my relationship. I hope that helps. Thanks for your contribution to the Wikipedia community in so many ways; when I'm not a communications pro, I'm a college professor specifically interested in these kinds of community driven outlets, and I preach transparency to make sure things stay the way they are. I think I got things right in my disclosure, but if see any ways to improve it, much appreciated. Levydr (talk) 13:22, 11 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]