User talk:Elizabeth at Walmart

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Elizabeth at Walmart! Thank you for your contributions. Not many people say that they may have a WP:COI, it is great to see that, and also that you know you should stick to talk pages! I am LakesideMiners and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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September 2020

Hello Elizabeth at Walmart. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:John Furner, 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:Elizabeth at Walmart. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Elizabeth at Walmart|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 ~ Amkgp 💬 15:10, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Amkgp: Thanks for the note! To be clear: I have disclosed that I am an employee of Walmart. In addition to my user name and the declaration on my user page, I left a comment on the AfC submission that reads, "On behalf of my employer Walmart, I am submitting a draft article for John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S. Because of my conflict of interest, I have kept this draft brief, neutral, and sourced to independent sources" and I posted the {{Connected_contributor_(paid)}} on the draft's Talk page. As you suggested, though, I will also include {{Paid}} to my user page. Hope that clarifies things! Elizabeth at Walmart (talk) 22:08, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]