User talk:Besalgado

June 2019

Hello, I'm Graham87. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Education in Italy have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Graham87 16:44, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Copying licensed material requires attribution

Hi. I see in a recent addition to Economic, social and cultural rights you included material from a webpage that is available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. — Diannaa (talk) 14:30, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, I appreciate your feedback, but I don't understand since I did attribute my citations under Sources as follows:

Definition of Free Cultural Works logo notext.svg This article incorporates text from a free content work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Right to education handbook, 276, UNESCO, Right to Education Initiative (UK), UNESCO. To learn how to add open license text to Wikipedia articles, please see this how-to page. For information on reusing text from Wikipedia, please see the terms of use.

Do I need to attribute it twice? In reference as well as in the sources?

Thank you, Besalgado (talk) 15:20, 11 February 2020 (UTC)Besalgado

Once is enough. Sorry, I didn't notice you had included an attribution statement. — Diannaa (talk) 19:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Advocacy / advice

You seem to be inserting large sections comprising of copy/paste of public domain documents over many articles. The problem is these documents are written as advocacy and/or advice which is incompatible with Wikipedia. You should read Wikipedia's policies re: WP:NOTADVOCACY / WP:NOTADVICE and look at WP:TONE. If the sources are useful to the reader you may want to consider adding them to external links instead of trying to add them to the article body since Wikipedia is not a repository of such material. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 15:16, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020

Hello Besalgado. 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:Besalgado. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Besalgado|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. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:33, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Cordless Larry:

I'm Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO and I've been training staff here to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia. I developed a process to add open license text from publications with instructions which is available at Help:Adding_open_license_text_to_Wikipedia which was developed with a lot of community involvement. I did this to improve the quality of content on Wikipedia by making it easier to share existing open license content produced by experts on Wikipedia which other contributors can then improve.

I have been away from the office for some months due to contract issues which is when User:Besalgado began contributing to Wikipedia. I wan't able to offer them the in person guidance that is often needed and I did not include information on the help page about declaring paid editing.

User:Besalgado has now added the disclosure to their page and a reminder has been added to the help page which tells people to declare paid editing.

Best

John Cummings (talk) 16:25, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, John Cummings. Besalgado, just to make you aware that, per WP:COIPAYDISCLOSE, you should add a list of the articles that you've edited as part of your paid work to your user page. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:07, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks very much Cordless Larry, we have a list, will add it to the userpage early next week. Best, John Cummings (talk) 20:51, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Cordless Larry: Thank you for your comments and feedback.

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Proposed deletion of Education for justice

The article Education for justice has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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August 2022

You may be blocked from editing without further warning if you make any further edits without responding to the inquiry you received regarding undisclosed paid editing. Your user page, which is supposed to contain a statement clarifying your conflict of interest, has only a mission statement of some kind. Drmies (talk) 01:24, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Futures of Education

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Proposed deletion of Mobile learning for refugees

The article Mobile learning for refugees has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This is essentially an essay, based on UNESCO's POV.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:36, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The thread is Continuing UNESCO COI issues. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:01, 6 February 2023 (UTC)