User talk:Jjjonesss

December 2021

Hello Jjjonesss. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, 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:Jjjonesss. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jjjonesss|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. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 18:45, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Curb Safe Charmer: Hello Curb Safe Charmer. Apologies--I'm new to this practice and am still learning the ropes. I am an administrator at the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, but had no intention of providing biased or inaccurate information about it, nor did I realize that this practice was frowned upon. I've only made small adjustments to a page that was otherwise already in place when I started in this role earlier this year. I will update my user page disclosing my employment there and will also discuss changing this practice with my superior, however. If we remove the changes that I have made today would it be possible to remove the "paid contribution" note from the page? Thanks! Jjjonesss (talk) 19:10, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Curb Safe Charmer: Thank you for the changes that you've made to the article to make it more compliant. What further changes can we make to be able to safely remove the paid contribution tag from our page? Should my previous edits also be removed? Additionally, one change that you made has actually rendered the description inaccurate. You say that the Foundation provides grants to young artists, however we specifically provide grants to young *and* emerging artists (not all emerging artists are young and vice versa) who work in the representational tradition in painting, sculpture, drawing or printmaking. We have a very specific mandate and do not wish to mislead anyone who finds our page and treats it as fact (we receive a lot of misguided applications as it is!). Is it possible to retain some aspects of the description that you removed today?Jjjonesss (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jjjonesss: You do not need to revert your edits to the draft. However you do need to complete the disclosure as explained above before you edit further. Rather than you modifying the article directly, please read WP:EDITREQ for how to request changes to an article where you have a conflict of interest. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 18:24, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Curb Safe Charmer: I thought I had added the disclosure, but apparently did not save. It has been added now. I'll review the edit request article if we need to make changes in the future.