User talk:KarenNower
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May 2022[edit]
Hello KarenNower. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Royal Society of Medicine, 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:KarenNower. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=KarenNower|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. —Ganesha811 (talk) 00:22, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, thank you for your message. Are you able to advise how to update the page as what it has been changed to is now incorrect. The Royal Society of Medicine is not a society, it is a registered charity. The changes I made are factual. Is it possible to update the information to reflect what is factually correct please e.g. in line with the website https://www.rsm.ac.uk/?
- Many thanks for your help,
- Karen KarenNower (talk) 10:26, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hello Karen,
- You can see our guide to making edit requests when you have a conflict of interest here. Basically, disclose your COI, and then make suggestions on the article's talk page. You can also use the Edit Request Wizard, which may be easier. Editors without a conflict of interest are then able to view your suggestions and decide whether to implement them or not. I'm happy to take a look at whatever you may suggest. —Ganesha811 (talk) 11:49, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you, that's super helpful! I will get round to this in a few days. KarenNower (talk) 12:29, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, I have had a go at this, any feedback / advice would be really helpful and much appreciated. Kind regards, KarenNower (talk) 11:22, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
- I've responded on the talk page there. Thank you for going about this the right way! The key thing is that Wikipedia articles need to be neutral and they need to sound neutral; PR-style writing isn't encyclopedic in tone and should be avoided. Working together, I'm sure we can improve the RSM article. —Ganesha811 (talk) 12:45, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have suggested a chance to on the Edit Request Wizard. If you are able to view that and advise what would be acceptable that would be great. KarenNower (talk) 13:43, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hi there. I wondered if it was possible to check when we might get a response to the edits requested? Many thanks. KarenNower (talk) 10:45, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Ganesha, is anyone able to help with my request please - it's been almost a year and I never heard anything back. KarenNower (talk) 11:15, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
- I've responded on the talk page there. Thank you for going about this the right way! The key thing is that Wikipedia articles need to be neutral and they need to sound neutral; PR-style writing isn't encyclopedic in tone and should be avoided. Working together, I'm sure we can improve the RSM article. —Ganesha811 (talk) 12:45, 24 June 2022 (UTC)