Template talk:Uw-paid1

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Employment

Often when I issue this warning to new users, a convo along the following lines ensues:

"I am not being compensated for my editing."
"Okay, so what is your relationship with the subject?"

"I work for this organisation."
"Do they not pay you?"

"Yes, but they do not pay me to edit Wikipedia."

I wonder if the template message ("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.") isn't clear enough; perhaps the users interpret that as only referring to someone (PR agency, freelance copywriter, etc.) writing for their client, not writing in the course of their employment? Could we add an explicit reference to "employment" in this template? (There is one mention of "employer", but it comes only in the last para, and it may be folks don't read that far if they've already concluded this doesn't apply to them.)

Thoughts? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:32, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]