User talk:IGBPRoss

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, IGBPRoss. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page It Gets Better Project, 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:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 17:23, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mission

In addition, please see WP:MISSION for the policy on Mission statements.Naraht (talk) 17:26, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

April 2022

Hello IGBPRoss. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to It Gets Better Project, 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:IGBPRoss. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=IGBPRoss|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. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:06, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please enter into conversation..

Please enter into conversation with other editors here or in the Talk:It Gets Better Project.Naraht (talk) 21:23, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for alerting me to this. I was unaware. As the Director of Communications and PR, I was just trying to make some basic updated to better explain the nature of our work and current staff, not to debate anything that is currently listed on our page. I will fill out the disclosure form. In the meantime, I'm wondering if you have any suggestions on how I can go about making updates as a member of the staff? The information on our page is very outdated (it mentions nothing about our work since 2013) and I'd like to make it more current. Is this something you might be interested in helping with/ Or something you have any suggestions about?

Ross IGBPRoss (talk) 22:30, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As said above, 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.

Please bear in mind that you are likely not to be the best person to suggest neutral edits. People with your job title find neutral, well referenced prose a very difficult discipline.

I was one of the early IGBP supporters. Oddly, IGBP ignored the non USA people, and moved from amateur supportive videos into some semblance of being a big business. Made me wish I hadn't bothered to record a supportive video.

It really is best on your user page to use the format Wikipedia suggests. I appreciate that you have been clear. Our format makes it somewhat clearer. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 22:56, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You say our page. It is not. It is Wikipedia's page.

Insofar as you are an editor you are part of shared ownership, but, when you post anything in Wikipedia you agree to our Terms of Use and agree to irrevocably release your text under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and GFDL. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license. as it says on every page where you can submit, reply, etc. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 22:59, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for further clarifying. Understood re my title and the conflict of interest and will submit article creation accordingly. IGBPRoss (talk) 01:41, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In case you have misunderstood, you should not create a duplicate article using WP:AFC and seek wholesale replacement. This will fail (0.99 probability).

You should request edits on the existing article's talk page. Ideally you should use one request per edit (in its own section), supplying references and justification. {{request edit}} is your friend here. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 07:41, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]