Charlie Littlejones

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was University of Sussex, which 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.

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Mandatory COI disclosure

Hello Charlie Littlejones. 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 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:Charlie Littlejones. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Charlie Littlejones|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. HLHJ (talk) 21:53, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi thanks I’ve had multiple messages about this. I am not getting paid to edit. I had asked for some changes to be made to the wiki page and wanted to make it clear I worked at the university. I have had advice on how to do this now. Many thanks, Charlie Charlotte Littlejones (talk) 05:29, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Charlotte Littlejones. If I understand rightly, you are employed by Communications, a public relations division of the University of Sussex which "is responsible for managing and enhancing the University of Sussex’s reputation as a world-leading research and academic institution". This means that you are paid to promote the University; you have a financial stake in producing positive public impressions of the university. You are a paid advocate of the University. Such employment constitutes a conflict of interest with providing neutral, unbiassed information about the University. It does not matter whether you are explicitly being paid to edit or not. Even if your conflict of interest were non-financial, you would need to declare it.

You did receive several messages telling you to disclose your COI; I'm the fifth editor who has told you to declare. Perhaps you ignored the previous four because you'd lost the password to your account, and that is why you are now replying to me from an alternate account? Perhaps you just didn't see the earlier meessages, and created a new account because you wrongly believed the rules apply on a per-account basis, not a per-human basis? While there are exceptions, using multiple accounts on Wikipedia without very good reason is generally frowned upon. Among other issues, it makes communication much more difficult.

This may sound a bit harsh, but your on-wiki behaviour so far is really not a good look. You've wasted editors' time, our most valued resource, and you continue to be in breach of one of the firmest rules of Wikipedia editing. You've misused the minor edit tag on your edit summaries; it should not be used on factual changes, even noncontroversial ones, but only for things like fixing spelling and formatting errors. You are also communicating poorly. While your actual edits to articles have not been problematic, the rest of your behaviour is. Generally, PR employees promoting their clients or employers are not very welcome on Wikipedia; we've repeatedly discussed banning them entirely. They are tolerated on sufferance, but only if they follow the rules. I should also warn you that the cultural norms of Wikipedia tend to be violently incompatible with those of the PR business.

So please, choose which editing account you want to use, close all your other accounts, and post a template message on that account's userpage saying that you are employed by the University of Sussex’s Communications division, as advised above. You are prohibited from editing Wikipedia articles, from any editing account or from no account (editing without logging in), until you have posted that message. It really is mandatory, not advisory. HLHJ (talk) 14:46, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Charlotte Littlejones, I see you thanked me for the above edit half an hour ago. Is there a problem? I'm happy to help if you are having difficulties; I can even add the statement for you if you like. HLHJ (talk) 18:17, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

October 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use talk pages for inappropriate discussion, as you did at Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines, you may be blocked from editing. Chris Troutman (talk) 02:32, 30 October 2022 (UTC)