Bwilsonaans

October 2024

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Please do not use styles that are nonstandard, unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in American Association of Neurological Surgeons. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 19:48, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi Magnolia, would you mind providing the specific edits I made that go against Wikipedia's style? I updated old info and provided links to our website so wondering what is getting flagged. Thank you! Bwilsonaans (talk) 19:50, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean by "our website"? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:06, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons website. I am the External Relations Specialist at the AANS and it is part of my job to update the AANS Wikipedia page. Bwilsonaans (talk) 21:08, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Let it be clear that your employer does not have any right of ownership or control of the Wikipedia article about it. The proper way for you to proceed is to 1) make a formal disclosure of your employment on your userpage (User:Bwilsonaans) with the {{paid}} template, and 2) avoid directly editing the article and learn the process to make edit requests on the article's talk page (Talk:American Association of Neurological Surgeons). --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:45, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello Bwilsonaans. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Bwilsonaans. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bwilsonaans|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. As External Relations Specialist at the AANS, you are considered a paid editor for that organization. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:27, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

You are mistaken, I am paid by the AANS as their External Relations Specialist but I have now put the Paid disclosure in my user page. Is is possible to implement the edits I made to copy. This info is at least 10 years old and needs to be updated Bwilsonaans (talk) 22:09, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi Bwilsonaans, I can take a look at your edits to American Association of Neurological Surgeons, incorporate your updates into the article, and help guide you through any copyright issues we may need to iron out. I'll be able to get to this at some point this week. If you haven't heard from me by next Monday, please feel free to post here to nudge me.

Also, apologies for the harsh welcome. We deal with a lot of paid editing from folks trying to sell products (truthfulness be damned) and I think that's left folks a bit harshly calibrated. It sounds like your goal is to have our information on AANS be clear and up-to-date. That's a goal we can all get behind. Ajpolino (talk) 23:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi Ajpolino, thank you I really appreciate your help! I definitely get keeping out those trying to sell products, but yep just trying to get the AANS page up to date. Especially with a new logo picture as we rebranded this past year. Thank you again. Bwilsonaans (talk) 15:02, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Your edit to American Association of Neurological Surgeons has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. -- Diannaa (talk) 19:27, 29 October 2024 (UTC)