Charleswatkinson

May 2021

Hello Charleswatkinson. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on politics, 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:Charleswatkinson. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Charleswatkinson|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. MrOllie (talk) 18:58, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

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Hello MrOllie. Thank you for your message. I am a librarian and I am adding information about open access peer-reviewed materials that University of Michigan Library and Press publish. I have added my affiliation to my page. I do not financially benefit from edits except that the resources we publish for free may be more used. Charleswatkinson (talk) 19:12, 2 May 2021 (UTC)Charleswatkinson

Well, if you're paid by the University of Michigan and you're linking their stuff, Wikipedia does consider that to be indirect compensation. But the disclosure you've put on your user page addresses the requirement in the terms of use. Thanks for adding it. - MrOllie (talk) 21:35, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

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That makes sense. Thanks. Charles

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Moore & Weinberg (February 19)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by 331dot was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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331dot (talk) 11:17, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Moore & Weinberg

Hello, Charleswatkinson. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Moore & Weinberg, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 12:02, 22 July 2022 (UTC)