User talk:Nate.ch99

June 2020

Hello Nate.ch99. 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. 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:Nate.ch99. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Nate.ch99|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. Praxidicae (talk) 17:26, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Hey Praxidicae, thank you for your concern. However this page is being done to no financial compensation or otherwise, it is a favor for a family friend as well as a practice for editing code. Thank you! -Natan

That doesn't address your WP:COI. Please do not edit about people whom you know or have a close connection with. Praxidicae (talk)

Hi Praxidicae, Let me expand and you can guide me. My father is a leading epidemiologist who works on kidney disease (Josef Coresh, MD, PhD). He suggested to me that I should learn how to edit Wikipedia as a skill. He further suggested that a good way to do this is to make an new entry and that Andrew Levey was a leading researcher who didn't have one. He actually contacted other colleagues (Moyses Szklo) to check for other people who didn't have entries. My father had graduate students make entries for Moyses Szklo and George Comstock so he says it seemed to him in the spirit of making sure his field of study is covered well. My conflict and reward is getting experience and making my family happy -- our parents so a lot of other things for us and their guidance is valuable. If you have advice about this or how I can use my new skills in editing Wikipedia, they are welcome. Thanks, Natan