User talk:Natmoss1
Image copyright problem with Image:Final ADRIFT poster.jpg
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Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, Natmoss1. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Wildlife Conservation Society, 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, clients, 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. Nat Moss, you seem to be the Executive Director for Strategic Communications at the Wildlife Conservation Society. Your edits to the Wikipedia article are not acceptable in this professional capacity without divulging your conflict and requesting others make the changes. Please follow the directions in the links above. JesseRafe (talk) 14:56, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Jesse,
- I actually did indicate in the changes I entered on Wednesday that I work for the Communications Department of WCS. I only edited the first paragraph of this page. I cannnot think of anything that I changed that falls into the category of "conflict of interest." We work in fewer countries than we did when the current entry was written. We have a new president. These are just facts about the organization. Who better than us to address that? I didn't delete anything related to problematic aspects of our history that are detailed in the WCS Wikipedia entry. I wasn't doing any kind of PR-related editing. I'm confused as to what exactly was changed that was a problem.
- If you still have concerns, could we speak to clarify what you need me to do?
- Many thanks,
- Nat Natmoss1 (talk) 16:01, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I reverted the Wednesday edits because the opening lines of "WCS combines the power of four zoos and an aquarium in New York City, and a Global Conservation Program in more than 50 countries, to achieve its mission to save wildlife" are explicitly "PR-related editing" - it's completely unencyclopedic in tone and reads like a press release. You also did not disclose that you personally were the Comms Dept, but that you got the info from there. You then went ahead and reverted without even an edit summary, which is both rude and doesn't present your WP policy position, and solidifies the claim that you seem to only be here to promote your organization rather than build an encyclopedia. Discuss on the article talk page what changes you would like to make, and wait for a disinterested party to make them. Please review the above links for more information. Thanks! JesseRafe (talk) 16:23, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hi - okay. Sorry for the unencyclopedic tone of that first sentence. I am honestly not a rude person. Clearly not as knowledgeable about the Wikipedia rules as I should be. Any lapse in protocol is a function of trying to resolve edits quickly. I will follow up at the talk page and let disinterested parties decide what to change. The entry for WCS in general is wildly selective in terms of the subjects that are highlighted from our history. Soon we'd love to make additional suggestions that capture a more balanced history of what the organization has done and what it is doing today.
- Thanks again,
- Nat Natmoss1 (talk) 16:42, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I reverted the Wednesday edits because the opening lines of "WCS combines the power of four zoos and an aquarium in New York City, and a Global Conservation Program in more than 50 countries, to achieve its mission to save wildlife" are explicitly "PR-related editing" - it's completely unencyclopedic in tone and reads like a press release. You also did not disclose that you personally were the Comms Dept, but that you got the info from there. You then went ahead and reverted without even an edit summary, which is both rude and doesn't present your WP policy position, and solidifies the claim that you seem to only be here to promote your organization rather than build an encyclopedia. Discuss on the article talk page what changes you would like to make, and wait for a disinterested party to make them. Please review the above links for more information. Thanks! JesseRafe (talk) 16:23, 7 July 2023 (UTC)