User talk:AXCam40

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Your submission at Articles for creation: School of Life Sciences (University of Dundee) has been accepted

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Gianvito Scaringi (talk) 10:35, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Disclosure of employment

In the edit summary of your initial user page edit, you stated "Disclosed my job as it is related to why I wish to create the pages I wish to." If you work for the University of Dundee, then I'm afraid that the {{UserboxCOI}} template isn't quite enough to properly disclose this information. What follows is the standard template message about paid editing disclosure.

Hello AXCam40. The nature of your edits 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 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:AXCam40. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=AXCam40|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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 22:15, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi I do work for the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. I am their Public Engagement and Communications Officer. In my role in public engagement, we wish to reach the public about who we are and what we do. We have very brief mentionings on wikipedia which is often a point of initial information. Also, inspired by the work of Jess Wade I looked at who that lead research in the School has pages. Only one female professor was represented - Doreen Cantrell. She indicates her page is very out of date and therefore incorrect in parts. I have updated most of those who do have pages as many needed updates. A starting point was to set up a School page and then create pages for our Professors especially our female ones. The aim is not a marketing exercise - that is not my job but to communicate with the public. I have tried to add a disclosure but I am struggling to add it in with the details as you have suggested. I click on template and paid then add School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee but that does not show and not in the format you have shown above. There seem to be a number of paid options from the list. If the page has to come down, that is fine but please let me gather the information I collated. It took me a long time and will be useful for my information. Can I create pages for researchers in our School or do I have to go via talk? Would this be the same for anyone connected to the University who already has a page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AXCam40 (talk • contribs)

There are quite a number of points to make here:

1. You must first understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia built on five fundamental principles (WP:5P). We create articles about notable topics - those that have gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time, and are not outside the scope of Wikipedia. We consider evidence from reliable and independent sources to gauge this attention. Each article is evaluated individually on its own merit.
2. Academics have their own special set of notability criteria at Wikipedia:Notability (academics).
3. We strive for accuracy, but we also expect our editors to rely upon independent sources, use no original research and write from a neutral point of view. Having a conflict of interest makes this more difficult. As Wikipedia is not for the purposes of publicity, you must ensure that your edits are not unduly self-serving. Readers expect to find neutral articles written independently of their subject.
4. Article content is arrived at by consensus. No single editor has any rights of ownership or editorial control over an article's content, regardless of their skill or standing. Content disputes should be discussed on the article talk page, and failing a satisfactory resolution there, follow the channels of dispute resolution.
5. You must comply with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure rules by identifying every article that you edited on behalf of your institution. The template below is probably the most suitable in your case, as you have edited multiple articles.

{{paid|talk=yes|user=AXCam40|employer=University of Dundee|list=yes|articles=
* [[Name of article]]
* [[Name of article]]
* [[Name of article]
* [[Name of article]]
  etc.
}}

Going forward, I would advise that you limit your edits to existing articles by leaving suggestions on the article talk page, using the {{request edit}} template. If you want to create new articles, I would advise you to continue using the Articles for Creation process, as the independent review better ensures that the content complies with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Good luck. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 18:23, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

If you do use the AFC process, I suggest also adding the following to the talk page of any draft you create which relates to your job:

{{Connected contributor | User1 = AXCam40 | U1-EH = yes | U1-declared = yes |U1-otherlinks = https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:AXCam40&direction=next&oldid=871031348 |U1-banned = }}

Thanks. --kingboyk (talk) 06:29, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Julian Blow

Hello, AXCam40. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Julian Blow".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. kingboyk (talk) 06:25, 4 August 2019 (UTC)