User talk:CaseyMW

June 2023[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Ministry Watch, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 20:40, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello CaseyMW. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Ministry Watch, 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:CaseyMW. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=CaseyMW|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. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 20:41, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am not being compensated for my edits. CaseyMW (talk) 20:44, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Then why are you adding promotional content to the page, and does the "MW" in your name not stand for "Ministry Watch"? — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 20:46, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I know the president personally, and he wanted me to update incorrect information on the page. Also, sharing biographical details about the president and his career is not promotional content. CaseyMW (talk) 20:49, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you know the president personally, you have a conflict of interest, and should not be directly editing the page. If you would like changes to be made, you can make an edit request on the article's talk page, citing reliable sources to support the changes. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 20:50, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

...wow. CaseyMW (talk) 20:52, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to everything Ingenuity said, please don't copy text from elsewhere into Wikipedia; it's a violation of the copyright policy. DanCherek (talk) 22:35, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]