NU-xanderton

December 2023

Hello NU-xanderton. 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 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 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:NU-xanderton. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=NU-xanderton|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. ElKevbo (talk) 22:55, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

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First off, thank you for your assistance in this! I'm very much working to follow the Wikipedia policies, which is why I requested changes via the Edit Request Wizard/COI rather than making them myself. I've provided a request, a rational, and documentation supporting the update I requested. I've been primarily working off of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest

Since your message I added the disclosure that I'm employed by Northeastern University to my user page. I have been making efforts to show that they are my employer, hence the username. What are the next steps? Thanks again for your assistance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by NU-xanderton (talk • contribs) 18:30, December 14, 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply! It looks like you're in good shape. I've replied to your message in the article's Talk page. Feel free to wait for a bit to see if other editors with different opinions respond. WT:UNI would be a good place to politely ask for additional opinions if no one else responds. ElKevbo (talk) 02:46, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you again! I appreciate it! 73.218.203.170 (talk) 02:59, 15 December 2023 (UTC)