Casa Heneral

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Casa Heneral. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 20:02, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi, thank you very much for the reply. I do not have any external relationship with the celebrity (John Arcilla). I had the chance to meet him personally and John Arcilla mentioned that his Wikipedia page contained errors and needed updating. He asked for my assistance. Unfortunately, some of the updates and corrections have been constantly changed by another editor. How can I resolve this? Do I communicate with this editor via "talk" or where can I bring this matter? Thank you. Casa Heneral (talk) 20:10, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

That does count as a conflict of interest; generally Wikipedia articles are written without any involvement from the subject. That said, a subject's input us welcome insofar as any person's input is. Yes, you should use the article talk page to discuss your concerns with the article, to arrive at a consensus. As I said at the help desk, ideally information in an article should be sourced to a reliable source. 331dot (talk) 20:38, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. How does the celebrity (John Arcilla) get in touch and bring this matter then for his Wikipedia page? How can John Arcilla flag the editors to correct and update his Wikipedia page? Please advise. Casa Heneral (talk) 02:29, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

You are free to represent him as long as you disclose that(as you have already) when requesting edits per the edit request procedure on an article talk page. If he prefers to contribute himself, he should first create an account in his name(or as close as possible), then confirm his identity by sending an email to the volunteer response team at info-en@wikimedia.org. He should not- I repeat, not- send copies of identity documents; the volunteers will get back to him about how to confirm his identity. He is then free to use the same edit request process to propose changes to the article about him, preferably sourced to a published reliable source that can be verified. He should also read the autobiography policy.

I emphasize it's best to think of it as an article about him and not "his Wikipedia page". It sounds like a small detail but can make a big difference in mindset. 331dot (talk) 05:42, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

@Casa Heneral I want to emphasize that, whoever makes any changes, those changes need to be properly cited to a published source... not the subject's own knowledge. The reason is here: WP:Verifiability 71.228.112.175 (talk) 05:51, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

October 2022

Please do not add or change content, as you did at John Arcilla, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Tacyarg (talk) 08:08, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the comment. But it would have been better if you did not change and deleted the updates. I have yet to explore how to put references on the article. It takes to time to update and correct the information. Casa Heneral (talk) 08:28, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Edits about living people that include new or more updated information must be sourced, ideally with the edit itself. Wikipedia has a strict policy regarding editing about living people, see WP:BLP. I again urge you to use the edit request process on the article talk page, you shouldn't be directly editing about this person due to your conflict of interest. 331dot (talk) 08:31, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

I am also curious as to why Mr. Arcilla brought up the article about him with you, if you just met him off the street and have no other relationship with him. 331dot (talk) 08:33, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

I was able to interview and correspond with Mr. Arcilla when I nominated him for a national award (2022 Kampeon ng Wika from the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino), where I documented his works as part of the requirement of the award. Casa Heneral (talk) 08:39, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. In any event, please make edit requests going forward. 331dot (talk) 08:45, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

How do I make "edit request?" If I am able to put proper citations for the updated information, would I still encounter a problem of having this new information John Arcilla's Wikipedia deleted by other editors? Casa Heneral (talk) 08:50, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

CS1 error on John Arcilla

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Continuing to edit John Arcilla despite conflict of interest

Hello Casa Heneral. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to John Arcilla, 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:Casa Heneral. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Casa Heneral|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.

Even if you are not being paid to edit this article, please note that you were previously informed that you have a conflict of interest and should make edit requests on the article's talk page and not directly edit the article.

I see that when you were last told you shouldn't directly edit the article you asked how to make an edit request but didn't get an answer. After you have clarified whether you are being paid to edit the article and made any necessary disclosures, you can use the Edit Request Wizard to help you make edit requests. AKiwiDeerPin (talk) 22:52, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi. I don't have any personal or business connections with the actor. The User Name is just a random one I've picked. I don't know how to change the User Name I've picked. Thanks. Casa Heneral (talk) 03:35, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

If you're confirming that you're not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, then you don't need to worry about the paid editing disclosure.

However, claiming you have no personal connection with the actor clearly contradicts what you have said before about your connection to him. You said you were "authorized" by him to update and correct the article about him, and on this page you describe an external connection to him.

Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines require you to be transparent about your conflict of interest. AKiwiDeerPin (talk) 23:44, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is John Arcilla. Thank you. —AKiwiDeerPin (talk) 01:48, 25 October 2023 (UTC)