Twoods540

Conflict of interest and failure to disclose

Hello, Twoods540. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Psychology Today, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 20:38, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks @Orangemike. I just added a disclosure on my user page. I'm not trying to promote, just to update the page with a new cover. The existing one is a few years old. Twoods540 (talk) 20:40, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

The above links offer various templates used for more formal disclosure. And yes, "I want to update the article about the place where I work" is considered promotion by our standards. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:43, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Media presence

Hello, Twoods540. I have removed the sentence about media presence from Psychology Today. Your regular updating of it is a clear example of promotion. (I get that you didn't think it was. One way of looking at this is that Wikipedia is not interested in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources.)

I removed the social media numbers because they were uncited; but, further than this: unless and until an independent source actually discusses the number of your followers, that information will not be relevant to an encyclopaedia article. ColinFine (talk) 21:46, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the explanation, @ColinFine Twoods540 (talk) 21:52, 23 February 2023 (UTC)