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Disclosure of employment

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Hello Jacobmacp. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Jacobmacp. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jacobmacp|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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:17, 22 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

There was a previous discussion on conflict of interest-type edits to the article Centre for International Governance Innovation at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard/Archive 95#Centre for International Governance Innovation. In addition to the three accounts mentioned there, I have identified a number of others, this one included. This cannot continue - please review the above policies before making any further edits to Wikipedia. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:52, 22 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your work here. I've updated my user page to disclose my conflict (though I'll be leaving the organization at the end of January, 2020). The other account is also me, I lost it when I forgot my password and neglected, I'd not set a recovery email. I'll be sure to review the terms of service before making further edits. -- Jacobmacp (talk) 16:22, 23 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for adding your disclosure. If you know of any person(s) who will be succeeding you in your role, you might want to point out to them these matters on Wikipedia, so that the cycle of undisclosed paid/conflict of interest editing does not repeat itself. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:46, 23 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

January 2020

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  Hello, Jacobmacp, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Jacobmacpherson (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:26, 22 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

There were edits in close proximity from these two accounts to the articles Centre for International Governance Innovation and Rohinton P. Medhora in July 2019. If you operated the Jacobmacpherson account and have abandoned it, please note that in reply to this message. Also, please respond to the above notice about disclosure of paid editing. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:30, 22 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Robert Fay (April 9)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Sulfurboy 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.
Sulfurboy (talk) 05:16, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
 
Hello, Jacobmacp! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Sulfurboy (talk) 05:16, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:Robert Fay

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Hello, Jacobmacp. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Robert Fay".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 05:26, 9 October 2020 (UTC)Reply