Junktuner
March 2023
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Hello Junktuner. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, 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:Junktuner. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Junktuner|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. Please, note that you must disclose your employer or any intermediary that is linked to your paid editing. "COP23" is not enough disclosure. MarioGom (talk) 20:18, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
- Given your message here [1], would you mind disclosing your other account? Will you disclose also your employer and any other affiliations related to this editing? Note that COP23 is not enough disclosure. If, for example, you work for a marketing agency, you need to disclose the agency and not just the final customer. MarioGom (talk) 17:00, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hi MarioGom. I apologize for the confusion, so please allow me to explain. I am new to Wikipedia and I got somewhat confused. This is my one and only account. What I meant by 'other account' refers to several edits I made in which my IP appeared before I was aware of the proper COI procedures of opening an account and disclosing. I am not sure what the right procedure is for going back to properly disclose those edits, but I am happy to fix it if you can guide me what the best way is. Regarding the current disclosure, I do not work for any specific external agency. I work for COP28, which is an autonomous government agency established by the UAE government for the purpose of planning and operating the COP28 event. Please guide me as to what is the best way to disclose so it is clear? Thanks for your help navigating through this. Junktuner (talk) 11:35, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you. I think that is clear, and it settles the issue for me. Best, MarioGom (talk) 17:07, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
- Hi MarioGom. I apologize for the confusion, so please allow me to explain. I am new to Wikipedia and I got somewhat confused. This is my one and only account. What I meant by 'other account' refers to several edits I made in which my IP appeared before I was aware of the proper COI procedures of opening an account and disclosing. I am not sure what the right procedure is for going back to properly disclose those edits, but I am happy to fix it if you can guide me what the best way is. Regarding the current disclosure, I do not work for any specific external agency. I work for COP28, which is an autonomous government agency established by the UAE government for the purpose of planning and operating the COP28 event. Please guide me as to what is the best way to disclose so it is clear? Thanks for your help navigating through this. Junktuner (talk) 11:35, 24 May 2023 (UTC)