User talk:185.113.248.250

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, 185.113.248.250. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Glass Lewis, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:05, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

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Undisclosed financial stake?

Hello 185.113.248.250. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Glass Lewis, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:185.113.248.250. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=185.113.248.250|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. Template:Z159 ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:08, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

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Response

Hi ToBeFree. I'm currently a student researching Glass Lewis (it's local office is in the same city as my school). I took the time to edit the page in conjunction with my study as I felt it wasn't very accurate or helpful in certain instances! Hope that clears things up. 185.113.248.250 (talk) 15:18, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is Glass Lewis. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:17, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

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