User talk:Alex Cloe

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Firefangledfeathers (talk) 01:44, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Looking forward to contribute more once I am holding the proper awareness and experience.

August 2021

Hello Alex Cloe. 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 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:Alex Cloe. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Alex Cloe|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. MrOllie (talk) 17:50, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello MrOllie, Hope you're doing great. I figured out my mistake. I had to make the information precise and factual. However, I didn't mention the accurate prize titles that Devra Davis won. She was part of the IPCC team as one of the lead authors on their assessment of climate mitigation policies (1999-2005). And the team won the noble peace prize back in 2007. I should have mention that. Moreover, her book "When Smoke Ran Like Water" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002. I've a couple of references to cite this information. Am I not allowed to do so? I've gone through the policies already. I tried to be factual and not promotional by any means. Please let me know if presenting the information this way would work. Thanks, Alex Cloe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex Cloe (talk • contribs)

Both of the things you're trying to add have been previously discussed on the talk page. Consensus is not to include for the moment, but you are welcome to contribute to the discussion on the article talk page further. Also, you didn't respond to the message above, please do so. - MrOllie (talk) 18:20, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

I really appreciate the fast response. MrOllie, I've another query if you are kind enough to help me out. You said I could contribute to the discussion on the article talk page. How do I participate there? Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex Cloe (talk • contribs)

You must respond to the inquiry about paid editing before doing that. - MrOllie (talk) 19:05, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Alex Cloe, could you please answer the above question about paid editing and conflict of interest?

As a much more minor matter, please remember to sign your talk page posts with four tildes. If you sign with three, it signs with your name but not the date (which is not ideal). Firefangledfeathers (talk) 18:03, 11 August 2021 (UTC)