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Hello, EDSociety, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• Best practices for editors with close associations
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
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• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 12:27, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

February 2022

Hello EDSociety. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Lara Bloom, 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:EDSociety. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=EDSociety|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. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 12:26, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

After your successful name change you will wish to edit the paid declaration on your user page, please. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 13:35, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello EDSociety! Your additions to Lara Bloom have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 12:28, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Understanding the problems with my page

Hi, I am new to creating wkipedia content and so I'm looking for some support/guidance on understanding exactly what of the content I am trying to add to wikipedia is beyond the rules and how I can overcome this. I am an employee of the Ehlers-Danlos Society and I hae been asked to create a wikipedia page on behalf of the CEO of the society, ghowever this is not with the intention of encouraging financial benefit, but instead to increase transparency and demonstrate the links between the society and the CEO. How can I go about getting the conent reviewed prior to saving this in order to make the page compliant and prevent this from being removed from wikipedia? Thank you for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EDSociety (talk • contribs) 12:41, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Drafts may be created and submitted at Articles for creation. Those in your position usually have great difficulty, as creating a new article is the hardest thing to do on Wikipedia, and it's even harder with a conflict of interest. To succeed, you need to set aside everything you know about this person and your organization, and all related materials(interviews, the company website, press releases, brief mentions) and only write based on the content of independent reliable sources with significant coverage that have chosen on their own to give that coverage. Please read Your First Article. 331dot (talk) 12:51, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

I will add that it was very inappropriate for your superiors to ask you to do this without themselves understanding these things, as you have little control over the process. 331dot (talk) 12:53, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

I'm afraid multiple things are incorrect.

• Let's start with one that yiu must know about in your job. You copied large tranches of text which was someone else's copyright text. We will not allow this here.
• You have a conflict of interest. Not only that, you are an employee of the organisation, and thus are classified as a paid editor when editing anything to do with your employer.
• Paid editors are most strongly discouraged from editing articles directly, unless it is matters of trivial factual accuracy that are to be corrected

As @331dot has said, it is extremely unfair of your employer to set this task for you to accomplish. They, and you, have precisely nio control over what Wikipedia articles contain. That seems unfair, but it is not. Wikipedia may only record what is said by others in third party, independent, reliable sources (shorthand is WP:42). This means that is a source explain that black is white, despite knowing that it iOS not, if no other source is available, wikipedia must report, with citation, that black is white. I exaggerate for effect.

Now, there is a way out of this. You may create Draft:Lara Bloom as a paid editor, and may submit it for review, and must await the reviewers' (plural) decisions. It is an iterative process. I was going to say that you could copy and paste the material that you added previously, but you may niot, It contains material taken against copyright from Bloom's 'About' page. You may, must, create in in 100% your own words, with citations.

On Draft talk:Lara Bloom you need to set Template:Connected contributor (paid) with parameters filled out correctly. Asking for help in this is fine. This is required whether or not you change your user name.

Here is a part that will seem unfair. Wikipedia created the Wikipedia:Articles for creation process to allow all editors, especially new editors, to hit the ground running. It gives help and advice. That's good, and you must use it as a paid editor. However, Wikipedia is an amateur project. Paid editors are expected, since they are paid, to use that pay to learn what is required of them and to need minimal advice, if any. We tend not to feel sympathy for someone who is receiving pay for what is 'our' hobby. So please use your time wisely, and tell your employer that you are researching ways of meeting their request before setting fingers to article creation. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 13:17, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Please do not edit Lara Bloom. Please see my words directly above. You may, if you wish, create a draft, but may not edit this article. I have reverted your edits twice now. Please see WP:3RR which shows that while you may not keep doing this, I may keep reverting your edits because it is perceived as vandalism. This message counts as a level one warning for disruptive editing. Continuing in this manner, especially while using this use name, is likely to result in your being blocked from editing. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 13:23, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "EDSociety", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 12:46, 21 February 2022 (UTC)