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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
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If you want advice about a conflict of interest, see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard
For practical advice for editors who might have a conflict of interest, see Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
This page documents an English Wikipedia behavioral guideline.
It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.
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This page in a nutshell: Do not edit Wikipedia in your own interests or in the interests of your external relationships.
Conflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships. Any external relationship can trigger a conflict of interest. That someone has a conflict of interest is a description of a situation, not a judgment about that person's opinions or integrity.
COI editing is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia. It undermines public confidence and risks causing public embarrassment to the individuals and companies being promoted. Editors with a COI are typically unaware of whether or how much it has influenced their editing. If COI editing causes disruption, an administrator may opt to place blocks on the involved accounts.
Editors with a COI, including paid editors, are expected to disclose it whenever they seek to influence an affected article's content. Anyone editing for pay must disclose who is paying them, who the client is, and any other relevant affiliation; this is a requirement of the Wikimedia Foundation. In addition, COI editors are generally advised not to edit affected articles directly, and to propose changes on talk pages instead.
When investigating COI editing, do not reveal the identity of editors against their wishes. Wikipedia's policy against harassment, in particular the prohibition against disclosing personal information, takes precedence over this guideline. Editors discussing changes to this guideline should disclose whether they have been paid to edit Wikipedia.
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1 Wikipedia's position
1.1 Purpose of Wikipedia
1.2 COI editing
1.3 Paid editing
1.4 Wikimedia Foundation terms of use
2 How to disclose a COI
2.1 General COI
2.2 Paid editors
3 What is conflict of interest?
3.1 External roles and relationships
3.2 COI is not simply bias
3.3 Why is conflict of interest a problem?
3.4 Actual, potential and apparent COI
4 Dealing with edit requests from COI or paid editors
4.1 Responding to requests
4.2 Attribution in edit summaries
4.3 Paid editors on talk pages
5 Copyright of paid contributions
6 Covert advertising
6.1 US Federal Trade Commission and native advertising
6.2 European fair-trading law
6.3 UK Advertising Standards Authority
6.4 Advertising Standards Canada
7 Other categories of COI
7.1 Legal and other disputes
7.2 Campaigning, political
7.3 Writing about yourself, family, friends
7.4 Citing yourself
7.5 Cultural sector
7.6 Wikipedians in residence, reward board
8 Miscellaneous
8.1 Solicitations by paid editors
8.2 Law of unintended consequences
8.3 No shared accounts, no company accounts
8.4 Making uncontroversial edits
8.5 Supplying photographs and media files
9 How to handle conflicts of interest
9.1 Avoid outing
9.2 Dealing with single-purpose accounts
9.3 Templates
10 See also
11 Further reading
Wikipedia's position[edit]
Purpose of Wikipedia[edit]
Further information: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia's mission is to provide the public with articles that summarize accepted knowledge, written neutrally and sourced reliably. Readers expect to find neutral articles written independently of their subject, not corporate or personal webpages, or platforms for advertising and self-promotion. Articles should contain only material that complies with Wikipedia's content policies and best practices, and Wikipedians must place the interests of the encyclopedia and its readers above personal concerns.
COI editing[edit]
See also: Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
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Editors with a COI should follow Wikipedia policies and best practices scrupulously:
you should disclose your COI when involved with affected articles;
you are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly;
you may propose changes on talk pages (by using the {{request edit}} template), or by posting a note at the COI noticeboard, so that they can be peer reviewed;
you should put new articles through the Articles for Creation (AfC) process instead of creating them directly;
you should not act as a reviewer of affected article(s) at AfC, new pages patrol or elsewhere;
you should respect other editors by keeping discussions concise.
Note that no one on Wikipedia controls articles. If Wikipedia hosts an article about you or your organization, others may add information that would otherwise remain little known. They may also decide to delete the article or decide to keep it should you later request deletion. The media has several times drawn attention to companies that engage in COI editing on Wikipedia (see Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia), which has led to embarrassment for the organization concerned.
Paid editing[edit]
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An editor has a financial conflict of interest when they write about a topic with which they have a close financial relationship. This includes being an owner, employee, contractor, investor or other stakeholder. Being paid to contribute to Wikipedia is one form of financial COI; it places the paid editor in a conflict between their employer's goals and Wikipedia's goals. The kind of paid editing of most concern to the community involves using Wikipedia for public relations and marketing purposes. Sometimes called "paid advocacy", this is problematic because it invariably reflects the interests of the client or employer. The Wikimedia Foundation requires that all paid editing be disclosed.
If you receive or expect to receive compensation (money, goods or services) for your contributions to Wikipedia:
you must disclose who is paying you, on whose behalf the edits are made, and any other relevant affiliation;
you should make the disclosure on your user page, on affected talk pages, and whenever you discuss the topic;
you are very strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly.
you may propose changes on talk pages (by using the {{request edit}} template), or by posting a note at the COI noticeboard), so that they can be peer reviewed;
you should put new articles through the Articles for Creation (AfC) process instead of creating them directly;
you should not act as a reviewer of affected article(s) at AfC, new pages patrol or elsewhere;
you should respect volunteers by keeping discussions concise (see PAYTALK).
If you are an administrator, you must not use administrative tools for any paid-editing activity (except when related to work as a Wikipedian-in-residence, or as someone paid by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate).
Requested edits are subject to the same standards as any other, and editors may decline to act on them. To find an article's talk page, click the "talk" button at the top of the article. See WP:TEAHOUSE if you have questions about these things.
Wikimedia Foundation terms of use[edit]
Further information: Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure
The Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require that editors who are being paid for their contributions disclose their employer (the person or organization who is paying for the edits); the client (the person or organization on whose behalf the edits are made); and any other relevant affiliation. This is the policy of the English Wikipedia.
How to disclose a COI[edit]
General COI[edit]
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If you become involved in an article where you have any COI, you should always let other editors know about it, whenever and where ever you discuss the topic. If you want to use a template to do this, place {{connected contributor}} at the top of the affected talk page, fill it in as follows, and save:
[show]Connected contributor template
{{Connected contributor|User1=Your username |U1-declared=yes| U1-otherlinks=(Optional) Insert relevant affiliations, disclosures, article drafts or diffs showing COI contributions.}}
Note that someone else may add this for you. You can also make a statement in the edit summary of any COI contribution. If you want to note the COI on your user page, you can use the {{UserboxCOI}} template:
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Edit your user page and type {{UserboxCOI|1=Wikipedia article name}}, then click "save".
Example
For a COI editor's talk-page declaration, see Talk:Steve Jobs
If you propose significant or potentially controversial changes to an affected article, you can use the {{request edit}} template. Place this at the bottom of the talk page and state your suggestion beneath it (be sure to sign it with four tildes, ~~~~). If the proposal is verifiable and appropriate, it will usually be accepted. If it is declined, the editor declining the request will usually add an explanation below your entry.
Paid editors[edit]
Further information: Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure
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If you are being paid for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must declare who is paying you, who the client is, and any other relevant role or relationship. You may do this on your user page, on the talk page of affected articles, or in your edit summaries. As you have a conflict of interest, you must ensure everyone with whom you interact is aware of your paid status, in all discussions on Wikipedia pages within any namespace. If you want to use a template to disclose your COI on a talk page, place {{connected contributor (paid)}} at the top of the page, fill it in as follows, and save:
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{{Connected contributor (paid)|User1=Username of the paid editor|U1-employer=Name of person/organization that is paying for the edits|U1-client= Name of client|U1-otherlinks=Insert diff to disclosure on your User page.}}
Example
For a paid editor's talk-page declaration, see Talk:Mia Farrow.
The employer is whoever is paying you to be involved in the article (such as a PR company). The client is on whose behalf the payment is made (usually the subject of the article). If the employer and client are the same entity—that is, if Acme Corporation is paying you to write about Acme Corporation—the client parameter may be left empty. See {{connected contributor (paid)}} for more information. Note that other editors may add this template for you.
You are expected to maintain a clearly visible list on your user page of your paid contributions. If you propose changes to an affected article, you can use the {{request edit}} template. Post it on the talk page and make your suggestion underneath it. Paid editors must respect the volunteer nature of the project and keep discussions concise; see WP:PAYTALK.
What is conflict of interest?[edit]
External roles and relationships[edit]
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While editing Wikipedia, an editor's primary role is to further the interests of the encyclopedia. When an external role or relationship could reasonably be said to undermine that primary role, the editor has a conflict of interest. (Similarly, a judge's primary role as an impartial adjudicator is undermined if she is married to the defendant.)
Any external relationship—personal, religious, political, academic, legal, or financial (including holding a cryptocurrency)—can trigger a COI. How close the relationship needs to be before it becomes a concern on Wikipedia is governed by common sense. For example, an article about a band should not be written by the band's manager, and a biography should not be an autobiography or written by the subject's spouse.
Subject-matter experts (SMEs) are welcome on Wikipedia within their areas of expertise, subject to the guidance below on financial conflict of interest and on citing your work. SMEs are expected to make sure that their external roles and relationships in their field of expertise do not interfere with their primary role on Wikipedia.
COI is not simply bias[edit]
Further information: WP:ADVOCACY
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Determining that someone has a COI is a description of a situation. It is not a judgment about that person's state of mind or integrity. A COI can exist in the absence of bias, and bias regularly exists in the absence of a COI. Beliefs and desires may lead to biased editing, but they do not constitute a COI. COI emerges from an editor's roles and relationships, and the tendency to bias that we assume exists when those roles and relationships conflict.
Why is conflict of interest a problem?[edit]
On Wikipedia, editors with a conflict of interest who unilaterally add material tend to violate Wikipedia's content and behavioral policies and guidelines. The content they add is typically unsourced or poorly sourced and often violates the neutral point of view policy by being promotional and omitting negative information. They may edit war to retain content that serves their external interest.
Actual, potential and apparent COI[edit]
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An actual COI exists when an editor has a COI with respect to a certain judgment and is in a position where the judgment must be exercised.
Example: A business owner has an actual COI if he edits articles and engages in discussions about that business.
A potential COI exists when an editor has a COI with respect to a certain judgment but is not in a position where the judgment must be exercised.
Example: A business owner has a potential COI with respect to articles and discussions about that business, but she has no actual COI if she stays away from those pages.
An apparent COI exists when there is reason to believe that an editor has a COI.
Example: Editors have an apparent COI if they edit an article about a business, and for some reason they appear to be the business owner, although they may actually have no such connection. Apparent COI causes bad feeling within the community and should be resolved through discussion whenever possible.
Dealing with edit requests from COI or paid editors[edit]
Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests
Responding to requests[edit]
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Editors responding to edit requests from paid editors are expected to do so carefully, particularly when commercial interests are involved. When large amounts of text are added to an article on behalf of the article subject, the article has, in effect, been ghostwritten by the subject without the readers' knowledge. Responding volunteers should therefore carefully check the proposed text and sources. That an article has been expanded does not mean that it is better.
Make sure the proposed paid text complies with WP:WEIGHT.
Look for unnecessary detail that may have been added to overwhelm something negative.
Make sure nothing important is missing. Responding editors should do their own search for independent sources. Do not rely on the sources offered by the paid editor.
Look for non-neutral language and unsourced or poorly sourced content.
Be cautious about accepting content based on WP:SPS such as a personal website, or primary sources such as a company website or press release.
If the paid text is added to the article, the edit summary should include full attribution; for example: "Text inserted on behalf of paid editor User:X; copied from Draft:Paid draft." See WP:COIATTRIBUTE below.
Attribution in edit summaries[edit]
Further information: Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources
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If editors choose to add material to an article on behalf of a COI or paid editor, they must provide attribution for the text in the edit summary. The edit summary should include the name of the COI or paid editor, a link to the draft or edit request, and that the edit contains a COI or paid contribution. For example: "Text inserted on behalf of paid editor User:X; copied from Draft:Paid draft." This transparency helps editors and readers to determine the extent of COI influence on the article. It also complies with copyright requirements.
Paid editors on talk pages[edit]
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Paid editors must respect the volunteer nature of the project and keep discussions concise. When proposing changes to an article, they should describe the suggested modifications and explain why the changes should be made. Any changes that may be contentious, such as removal of negative text, should be highlighted.
Before being drawn into long exchanges with paid editors, volunteers should be aware that paid editors may be submitting evidence of their talk-page posts to justify their salaries or fees. No editor should be expected to engage in long or repetitive discussions with someone who is being paid to argue with them. Editors who refuse to accept a consensus by arguing ad nauseam may find themselves in violation of the disruptive-editing guideline.
Copyright of paid contributions[edit]
See also: Work for hire
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Editors are reminded that any text they contribute to Wikipedia, assuming they own the copyright, is irrevocably licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution-Sharealike license and the GNU Free Documentation License. Content on Wikipedia, including article drafts and talk-page comments, can be freely copied and modified by third parties for commercial and non-commercial use, with the sole requirement that it be attributed to Wikipedia contributors.
Paid editors must ensure that they own the copyright of text they have been paid to add to Wikipedia; otherwise they are unable to release it. A text's author is normally assumed to be the copyright holder. Companies sometimes provide paid editors with text written by someone else. Alternatively, a paid editor might write text for Wikipedia within the scope of their employment (a "work for hire"), in which case copyright resides with the employer.
Where there is doubt that the paid editor owns the copyright, they (or the employer or author) are advised to forward a release from the copyright holder to the Wikimedia Foundation (permissions@wikimedia.org). See WP:PERMISSION for how to do this and Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries for a sample letter.
If editors choose to add material to an article on behalf of a paid editor, they must provide attribution for the text in the edit summary. See WP:COIATTRIBUTE for how to do this.
Covert advertising[edit]
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US Federal Trade Commission and native advertising[edit]
See also: Native advertising, Consumer protection, and Direct-to-consumer advertising
All editors are expected to follow United States law on undisclosed advertising, which is described by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at Endorsement Guidelines and Dot Com Disclosures. The FTC regards advertising as deceptive if it mimics a content format, such as a news report, that appears to come from an independent, impartial source:
Marketers and publishers are using innovative methods to create, format, and deliver digital advertising. One form is "native advertising", content that bears a similarity to the news, feature articles, product reviews, entertainment, and other material that surrounds it online. ...
In digital media, native ads often resemble the design, style, and functionality of the media in which they are disseminated. ... The more a native ad is similar in format and topic to content on the publisher's site, the more likely that a disclosure will be necessary to prevent deception. —Federal Trade Commission, 2015
To judge whether an ad is deceptive under the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, the FTC considers "both what the ad says and the format it uses to convey that information ... Advertisements or promotional messages are deceptive if they convey to consumers expressly or by implication that they’re independent, impartial, or from a source other than the sponsoring advertiser ...".
European fair-trading law[edit]
See also: Unfair Commercial Practices Directive
In 2012 the Munich Oberlandesgericht court ruled that if a company or its agents edit Wikipedia with the aim of influencing customers, the edits constitute covert advertising, and as such are a violation of European fair-trading law. The ruling stated that readers cannot be expected to seek out user and talk pages to find editors' disclosures about their corporate affiliation.
UK Advertising Standards Authority[edit]
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK found in 2012 that the content of tweets from two footballers had been "agreed with the help of a member of the Nike marketing team". The tweets were not clearly identified as Nike marketing communications and were therefore in breach of the ASA's code.
Advertising Standards Canada[edit]
The Canadian Code of Advertising Standards, administered by Advertising Standards Canada, states: "No advertisement shall be presented in a format or style that conceals the fact that it is an advertisement."
Other categories of COI[edit]
Legal and other disputes[edit]
Further information: WP:BLPCOI
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The biographies of living persons policy says: "[A]n editor who is involved in a significant controversy or dispute with another individual – whether on- or off-wiki – or who is an avowed rival of that individual, should not edit that person's biography or other material about that person, given the potential conflict of interest."
Similarly, editors should not write about court cases in which they or those close to them have been involved, nor about parties or law firms associated with the cases.
Campaigning, political[edit]
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See also: WP:ADVOCACY
Activities regarded by insiders as simply "getting the word out" may appear promotional or propagandistic to the outside world. If you edit articles while involved with campaigns in the same area, you may have a conflict of interest. Political candidates and their staff should not edit articles about themselves, their supporters, or their opponents. Government employees should not edit articles about their agencies, government, political party, political opponents, or controversial political topics.
Writing about yourself, family, friends[edit]
Further information: Wikipedia:Autobiography and WP:BLPCOI
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You should generally refrain from creating articles about yourself, or anyone you know, unless through the Articles for Creation process. If you have a personal connection to a topic or person, you are advised to refrain from editing those articles directly and to provide full disclosure of the connection if you comment about the article on talk pages or in other discussions.
An exception to editing an article about yourself or someone you know is made if the article contains defamation or a serious error that needs to be corrected quickly. If you do make such an edit, follow it up with an email to WP:OTRS, Wikipedia's volunteer response team, or ask for help on WP:BLPN, our noticeboard for articles about living persons, or the talk page of the article in question.
Citing yourself[edit]
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Using material you have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is relevant, conforms to the content policies, including WP:SELFPUB, and is not excessive. Citations should be in the third person and should not place undue emphasis on your work. When in doubt, defer to the community's opinion: propose the edit on the article's talk page and allow others to review it.
Cultural sector[edit]
Further information: Wikipedia:GLAM and Wikipedia:Advice for the cultural sector
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Museum curators, librarians, archivists, and similar are encouraged to help improve Wikipedia, or to share their information in the form of links to their resources. If a link cannot be used as a reliable source, it may be placed under further reading or external links if it complies with the external links guideline. Bear in mind that Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files.
Wikipedians in residence, reward board[edit]
There are forms of paid editing that the Wikimedia community regards as acceptable. These include Wikipedians in residence (WiRs)—Wikipedians who may be paid to collaborate with mission-aligned organizations, such as galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. WiRs must not engage in on-Wikipedia public relations or marketing for their organization, and they should operate within the bounds defined by Core characteristics of a Wikipedian in Residence at Wikimedia Outreach. They must work closely with a Wikipedia project or the general Wikipedia community, and are expected to identify their WiR status on their user page and on talk pages related to their organization when they post there.
Another example of acceptable paid editing is the reward board, where editors can post incentives, usually to raise articles to featured-article or good-article status. If you participate in this, transparency and neutrality are key.
Miscellaneous[edit]
Solicitations by paid editors[edit]
In any solicitation sent to a prospective client, paid editors should disclose the following information:
Paid editors do not represent the Wikimedia Foundation nor the Wikipedia editing community, and they have no authority beyond that of any volunteer editor.
Paid editors must disclose their employer, client, and affiliations on Wikipedia. There is no confidentiality for the client.
Paid edits may be reviewed and revised in the normal course of work on Wikipedia. Neither the client nor the paid editor own the article.
Paid editors cannot guarantee any outcome for an article on Wikipedia. It can be revised or deleted by other editors at any time.
Providing a client with a link to this section is appropriate disclosure, if it is done in a neutral and non-deceptive manner.
Paid editors must also provide a link to their user page which includes a declaration of their paid editing status.
If you received a solicitation from a paid editor that does not include this information, we recommend that you not do business with them. They are not following our policies and guidelines. Some of these solicitations have been linked to fraud. See Orangemoody editing of Wikipedia. If you think you’ve received a fraudulent solicitation, please forward it to arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org for investigation.
Law of unintended consequences[edit]
Further information: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is in the real world
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Once an article is created about yourself, your group, or your company, you have no right to control its content, or to delete it outside the normal channels. Content is irrevocably added with every edit. If there is anything publicly available on a topic that you would not want to have included in an article, it will probably find its way there eventually.
No shared accounts, no company accounts[edit]
Further information: WP:NOSHARE and WP:ORGNAME
Do not create a shared organizational account, or use the name of an organization as the account name. The account is yours, not your employer's.
Making uncontroversial edits[edit]
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Editors who have a general conflict of interest may make unambiguously uncontroversial edits (but see WP:FINANCIALCOI). They may:
remove spam and unambiguous vandalism,
remove unambiguous violations of the biography of living persons policy,
fix spelling and grammatical errors,
repair broken links,
remove their own COI edits, and
add independent reliable sources when another editor has requested them, although it is better to supply them on the talk page for others to add.
If another editor objects for any reason, it is not an uncontroversial edit. Edits not covered by the above should be discussed on the article's talk page. If an article has few uninvolved editors, ask at the talk page of a related Wikiproject or at WP:COIN. Also see WP:COITALK.
Supplying photographs and media files[edit]
Editors with a COI are encouraged to upload high-quality media files that are appropriately licensed for Wikipedia and that improve our coverage of a subject. For more information, follow the instructions at Commons. In some cases, the addition of media files to an article may be an uncontroversial edit that editors with a COI can make directly, but editors should exercise discretion and rely on talk pages when images may be controversial or promotional. If the addition of an image is challenged by another editor, it is not uncontroversial.
How to handle conflicts of interest[edit]
If an editor has disclosed that s/he is editing with a COI, or edits in a way that leads you to believe they might have a COI, raise the issue in a civil manner on the editor's talk page, citing this guideline, or open a thread on WP:COIN. Avoid making disparaging comments about the subject of the article, its author, or the author's motives.
If there has been no COI disclosure, consider first whether the issue may be simple advocacy. The appropriate forum for concerns about advocacy is WP:NPOVN. The appropriate forum for concerns about sources is WP:RSN. If there are concerns about sockpuppets or meatpuppets, please bring that concern to WP:SPI.
Avoid outing[edit]
Further information: Wikipedia:Harassment § Posting of personal information, and Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation statement on paid editing and outing
When investigating COI editing, the policy against harassment takes precedence. It requires that Wikipedians not reveal the identity of editors against their wishes. Instead, examine editors' behavior and refer if necessary to Wikipedia:Checkuser. Do not ask a user if they are somebody; instead one can ask if they have an undisclosed connection to that person. If revealing private information is needed to resolve COI editing, and if the issue is serious enough to warrant it, editors can seek the advice of functionaries or the arbitration committee by email.
Dealing with single-purpose accounts[edit]
Further information: Wikipedia:Blocking policy § Disruption-only, and Wikipedia:Single-purpose account
Accounts that appear to be single-purpose, existing for the sole or primary purpose of promotion or denigration of a person, company, product, service, website, organization, etc., and whose postings are in apparent violation of this guideline, should be made aware of this guideline and warned not to continue their problematic editing. If the same pattern of editing continues after the warning, the account may be blocked.
Templates[edit]
Relevant article talk pages may be tagged with {{connected contributor}} or {{connected contributor (paid)}}. The article itself may be tagged with {{COI}}. A section of an article can be tagged with {{COI|section}}
Other templates include:
{{uw-coi}} (to be placed on user Talk pages to warn editors that they may have a conflict of interest)
{{uw-coi-username}} (another Talk page warning, this one for editors whose username appears to violate the WP:Usernames policy)
{{COI editnotice}} (this template goes on article talk pages and gives instructions to COI editors on how to submit edit requests to the article)
{{UserboxCOI}} (for users to self-declare on their own Userpages those articles with which they have a conflict of interest, one such template per article)
See also[edit]
Wikimedia Foundation
Terms of Use#4. Refraining from Certain Activities
Sue Gardner, "Press releases/Sue Gardner statement paid advocacy editing", Wikimedia Foundation, 21 October 2013.
Contact us
Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects
Article
Conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia
Policies
Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure
Wikipedia:Username policy
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
Wikiprojects
Wikipedia:WikiProject Integrity
Miscellaneous
Wikipedia:About you
Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Cultural Professionals
Category:Requested edits (lists edits for review where proposer has a conflict of interest)
Category:Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest
Wikipedia:Reward board
Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations
User:COIBot
Users creating autobiographies (an edit filter)
Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms, June 2014
Essays
Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with close associations
Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest (medicine)
Wikipedia:Don't cry COI
Wikipedia:For publicists publicizing a client's work
Wikipedia:Ghostwriting
Wikipedia:Help available for editors with conflicts of interest
Wikipedia:Independent sources
Wikipedia:Paid editing (essay)
Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
Wikipedia:Public relations (essay)
Wikipedia:Search engine optimization
Wikipedia:Wikipedia is in the real world
Historical
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cooperation (inactive)
Wikipedia community discussion on paid editing, 2009, sparked by discovery that admin/crat/OTRS editor was editing for pay
Wikipedia community discussion on conflict of interest, 2012.
Wikipedia:COI+ (failed proposal, 21 February 2013)
Commercial editing (failed policy proposal turned into an essay, November 2013)
No paid advocacy (failed policy proposal, November 2013)
Paid editing policy proposal (failed policy proposal, November 2013)
Conflict of interest limit (failed policy proposal, December 2013)
Further reading[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia.
(chronological)
Davis, Michael (1982). "Conflict of Interest", Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 1(4), pp. 17–27 (influential). doi:10.5840/bpej1982149
Luebke, Neil R. (1987). "Conflict of Interest as a Moral Category," Business & Professional Ethics Journal, 6, pp. 66–81. JSTOR 27799930 (influential)
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A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
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A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Studio album by Panic! at the Disco
Released
September 27, 2005 (2005-09-27)[1]
Recorded
June–September 2005 at SOMD! Studios, College Park, Maryland, and Darn! Studios, Lewisville, Texas
Genre
Pop punk[2][3]
emo[4][5]
emo pop[6]
dance-punk[7]
baroque pop[2][8]
electropop[9]
Length
40:15
Label
Decaydance
Fueled by Ramen
Producer
Matt Squire
Panic! at the Disco chronology
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
(2005) Pretty. Odd.
(2008)Pretty. Odd.2008
Singles from
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
"The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage"
Released: September 27, 2005
"I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
Released: February 27, 2006
"But It's Better If You Do"
Released: May 16, 2006
"Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off"
Released: August 7, 2006
"Build God, Then We'll Talk"
Released: March 26, 2007
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is the debut studio album by American rock band Panic! at the Disco. Produced by Matt Squire, the album was released on September 27, 2005, on Decaydance and Fueled by Ramen. The group formed in Las Vegas in 2004 and began posting demos online, which caught the attention of Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz. Wentz signed the group to his own imprint label, Decaydance, without them having ever performed live.
The album was recorded on a small budget at SOMD! Studios in College Park, Maryland over several weeks in June 2005. The group had only graduated high school one month before. With lyrics written by lead guitarist/backing vocalist Ryan Ross, the record covers social issues and topics such as sanctity of marriage, adultery, mental health, alcoholism and prostitution are woven throughout the album. The album is divided into halves stylistically; the first half is primarily pop punk with elements of electronic, while the second employs more traditional instrumentation, with influences of baroque pop.
Upon its release, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out became a commercial success. Its second single, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", was a top 10 hit in the United States. It helped bolster sales to 1.8 million in the US by 2011, making it the group's best-selling release.[10] Despite its sales, the album polarized music critics, with many praising the album's catchiness and others questioning its originality. The band promoted the record with stints on the Nintendo Fusion Tour before its first headlining tour, the Nothing Rhymes With Circus Tour. In late 2015, its certification was upgraded to RIAA double platinum for 2 million shipments.[11]
Contents
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1 Background
2 Recording and production
3 Composition
4 Commercial performance
5 Reception
5.1 Accolades
6 Deluxe edition re-issue
7 Track listing
8 Personnel
8.1 Musicians
9 Charts and certifications
9.1 Charts
9.2 Certifications
10 References
11 External links
Background[edit]
The band was formed in 2004 in the suburban area of Summerlin, Las Vegas, by childhood friends Ryan Ross on guitar and Spencer Smith on drums. Both teens attended Bishop Gorman High School and they began playing music together in ninth grade. They invited their friend Brent Wilson from nearby Palo Verde High School to join on bass guitar, and Wilson invited his classmate Brendon Urie to try out on guitar.[12] They soon began rehearsing in Smith's grandmother's living room.[13] Urie grew up in a Mormon family in Las Vegas and early on skipped rehearsals to go to church.[14] Ross initially was the lead vocalist for the group, but on hearing Urie singing backing vocals during an early rehearsal, they unanimously decided to move him to lead.[15] They initially worked purely as a Blink-182 cover band.[16]
The monotonous nature of local Las Vegas bands influenced them to be different and creative, and they soon began recording experimental demos. Ross and Urie soon began to record on their laptops the demos they had been developing and posted three early demos ("Time to Dance", "Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks" and "Camisado") on PureVolume.[12] On a whim, they sent a link to Fall Out Boy bass guitarist Pete Wentz via a LiveJournal account. Wentz, who was in Los Angeles at the time with the rest of Fall Out Boy working on their first major-label album, From Under the Cork Tree, drove to Las Vegas to meet the band.[17] On hearing "two to three" songs during band practice, Wentz was impressed and immediately wanted the band to sign to his Fueled by Ramen imprint label Decaydance Records, which made them the first on the new label, which the group did around December 2004.[15] As news broke that Wentz had signed Panic! (who had yet to perform a single live show), fans on the Internet began to criticize the group.[18]
Meanwhile, Wentz began to publicize the band wherever possible, from wearing "Panic! at the Disco" T-shirts onstage to mentioning them in interviews. Wentz gave a quick mention to the band during a press junket on the day before the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards: "I've got a couple of bands coming out soon on Decaydance, one being this band called Panic! at the Disco," Wentz said. "Their record is going to be your next favorite record. It's called A Fever You Can't Sweat Out — get it before your little brother does."[18] At the time of their signing, all of the band members were still in high school, with the exception of Ross, who was forced to leave the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.[12]
Recording and production[edit]
After completing high school, the group members boarded a van and drove from Las Vegas to College Park, Maryland to record the album. Fueled by Ramen wanted the band to go into the studio earlier in the year, but Ross was attending college at UNLV and the others were still in high school. Urie graduated in May 2005 and the band pushed recording back to June; Smith and Wilson completed school online during production.[12] They picked producer Matt Squire based on his production on several independent albums the group liked. The label had hoped they would pick Mike Green, who had worked with Paramore on All We Know Is Falling. "I think Crush Management and Fueled by Ramen were like, 'Who is this dude?'" said Squire.[19]
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out was created in only "three and a half weeks" — including mixing and mastering — on a budget of $11,000.[19] The group entered the studio with half of the songs completed; the others were crafted in pre-production.[15] Recording was stressful. "We were in the studio for 14 hours a day for five weeks; we might have started losing our minds a little bit," Ross recalled humorously in a 2006 interview.[20] The band lived in a one-bedroom basement studio apartment during the production, with all sleeping in bunk beds. "Everyone got on everybody's nerves," said Ross. "Someone would write a new part for a song and someone else would say they didn't like it just because you ate their cereal that morning."[20] Urie's voice was blown after tracking the album. Squire remembered that most of the album's choruses and high harmonies were recorded in one session.[19] By the end of production, the band had not had a day off and were exhausted. After its completion, "We had two weeks to come home and learn how to be a band," Ross said.[12]
Composition[edit]
"Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn’t think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote."
—Urie on the album's songs[19]
The album is split in two stylistically, with the first half of the record using electronic instruments such as synthesizers and drum machines while the second employs traditional instruments such as the accordion and organ. They are separated by an intermission as a link between the two halves, beginning with techno-style dance beats before switching to a piano interlude. Squire recalled that the band had an "identity crisis" upon writing new songs. The more dance-infused tracks were crafted during the group's time in Vegas, but the band members found themselves writing more straightforward rock tracks when they entered the studio. The band did not want to include the rock songs, but Squire got them to agree to it one day over lunch. "I took them out to lunch and said, "Why don’t we tell the story of that creative evolution as the theme of the album?'", he later recalled.[19]
"London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines"
"London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines" takes a preliminary aim at webzines' criticism.[19]
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The ambitious quality of the album's content was representative of the band's desire to "do whatever we wanted," according to Urie.[21] The band was heavily inspired by music groups Third Eye Blind, Counting Crows, Arcade Fire and the Decemberists during rehearsals, and also by Danny Elfman and Jon Brion film scores.[18] Urie specifically cited the Beatles, Queen, the Smiths, Name Taken, and the Keane song "Everybody's Changing" as influences on the album. He remarked, "We took all of those biggest influences, listening to them from our parents and mashed them together."[21]
The album's writing is strongly influenced by Chuck Palahniuk's work. The song title "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" is a quote from his book Survivor. "Time to Dance" tells the story of Invisible Monsters, and includes quotes such as "Give me envy, give me malice, give me your attention". Other references and quotes can be found throughout the album, such as "Just for the record, the weather today is..." (Diary). Wentz served as an advisor to the group on lyrical content: "he was always there to help out with a line here, a line there," said Urie. The group noticed that bands in the pop punk scene, such as Fall Out Boy and Name Taken, were using long song titles. The band decided to take this a step farther, creating increasingly long titles partially as an inside joke.[19] The song "I Constantly Thank God for Esteban" was a reference to an infomercial for Esteban Guitars the group found humorous.[19]
Commercial performance[edit]
Sales of the album began relatively slow. As it debuted at No. 112 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and later peaked at #13. The album sold over two million copies in the United States.[19] It spent 66 weeks on the Billboard 200.[22]
Reception[edit]
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic [23]
Drowned in Sound 6/10[24]
Entertainment Weekly B[25]
Melodic [26]
Mojo [27]
Pitchfork Media 1.5/10[28]
PopMatters 4/10[29]
Rolling Stone [30]
The Skinny [31]
Stylus Magazine D[32]
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out divided music critics at the time of its release. Billboard, ten years after its release, deemed it "one of the most polarizing albums of our time."[19] Cory D. Byrom of Pitchfork Media was perhaps the most negative, criticizing the state of contemporary emo and bemoaning the album's apparent lack of "sincerity, creativity, or originality."[28] Johnny Loftus of Allmusic was similarly negative, writing, "This is a band in love with making a record — making a statement — but there's nothing unique inside, neither in their formula nor the vaunted and sticky production."[23] Lauren Gitlin of Rolling Stone complimented the album's sound, commenting, "What makes Panic different (and excellent) is their use of dance-floor synths and roboto drums, which redeems the album's whininess."[33] Kerrang! was positive, awarding the record four out of five stars.[34] Rolling Stone also gave a positive review, with a three and a half stars out of five.[30] Webzines like Gigwise and Sputnikmusic also gave positive reviews.[35][36]
The hit single, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", received massive airplay and Panic! at the Disco won "Video of the Year" on the annual MTV Video Music Awards in 2006, beating fellow nominees Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Shakira and Red Hot Chili Peppers. In September 2011, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" won MTV's Best Music Video for the 2000s[37] as well as Best Music Video Of All Time based on online voting.
Accolades[edit]
Rolling Stone listed it among the "40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time" in 2016, with James Montgomery dubbing it a "genre-defying blueprint" and commenting "it's difficult to argue that it's not a snapshot of where "emo" was at in 2005, right down to the sentence-long song titles."[38]
Year
Publication
Country
Rank
List
2012 Rock Sound United Kingdom 16 101 Modern Classics[39]
2016 Kerrang! 16 The 50 Best Rock Albums of the 2000s[40]
Rolling Stone United States 39 40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time[38]
Deluxe edition re-issue[edit]
On November 14, 2006, the album was re-released in a "deluxe" edition, packaged in a cigar box-shaped box set. The box set was limited to 25,000 copies.[41] It included the original album on CD, a live concert titled Live in Denver on DVD, picture cards for each song with lyrics printed on individual cards, 2006 tour program, poster of the band, live photo shots, a phenakistoscope, circus-styled mask, fake newspaper article and a blank notebook. The Live in Denver DVD was filmed in Denver on July 22, 2006.[42]
Track listing[edit]
All lyrics written by Ryan Ross; all music composed by Brendon Urie, Ryan Ross, Spencer Smith.
[show]Japanese edition pre-gap hidden tracks
No.
Title
Length
1. "Time to Dance" (demo) 4:16
2. "Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks" (demo) 3:56
3. "Camisado" (demo) 3:50
Total length: 11:59
No.
Title
Length
1. "Introduction" (instrumental) 0:37
2. "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" 2:54
3. "London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines" 3:23
4. "Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks" 3:23
5. "Camisado" 3:11
6. "Time to Dance" 3:22
7. "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" 3:20
8. "Intermission" (instrumental) 2:35
9. "But It's Better If You Do" 3:25
10. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" 3:06
11. "I Constantly Thank God for Esteban" 3:30
12. "There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet" 3:16
13. "Build God, Then We'll Talk" 3:40
Total length: 39:46
[show]Japanese edition bonus track
No.
Title
Length
14. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" (Live in Denver) 3:11
Total length: 42:57
[show]Japanese edition enhanced material
No.
Title
Length
1. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" (music video) 3:06
2. "But It's Better If You Do" (music video) 3:36
3. "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" (music video) 3:16
[show]Deluxe edition bonus DVD
No.
Title
Length
1. "Live in Denver" 72:10
Personnel[edit]
Credits for A Fever You Can't Sweat Out adapted from AllMusic.[43]
Musicians[edit]
Panic! at the Disco
Ryan Ross – lead guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, organ, piano, accordion, creative direction
Brendon Urie – vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, piano
Spencer Smith – drums, percussion, glockenspiel, tambourine, shaker, cabasa
Brent Wilson – bass guitar
Additional musicians
Heather Stebbins – cello, double bass
William Brousserd – trumpet
Samantha Bynes – violin
Production
Alan Ferguson – photography
John Janick – A&R
UE Nastasi – mastering
Panic! at the Disco - additional production
Matt Squire – production, engineer, mixing, audio production
Pete Wentz – A&R
Charts and certifications[edit]
Charts[edit]
Chart (2006)
Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[44]
11
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[45]
37
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[46]
43
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[47]
19
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[48]
41
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[49]
98
Irish Albums (IRMA)[50]
59
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[51]
37
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[52]
7
Scottish Albums (OCC)[53]
16
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[54]
26
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[55]
63
UK Albums (OCC)[56]
17
US Billboard 200[57]
13
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[58]
Platinum 70,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[59]
Platinum 357,202[60]
United States (RIAA)[61]
2× Platinum 2,000,000[19]
^shipments figures based on certification alone
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External links[edit]
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
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Ministry of Education
අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය
கல்வி அமைச்சு
Agency overview
Headquarters
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
6°53′27.5″N 79°55′48.4″E / 6.890972°N 79.930111°E / 6.890972; 79.930111
Ministers responsible
Akila Viraj Kariyawasam, Minister of Education
V.S. Radhakrishnan, State Minister of Education
Agency executive
Mr Bandusena, Permanent Secretary
Child agency
Department of Examinations
Website
www.moe.gov.lk
The Ministry Of Education (also known as the Education Ministry) is a ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka that directs the formulation and implementation of policies related to primary and secondary education in Sri Lanka. The ministry is not responsible for tertiary education which comes under the Ministry of Higher Education however two universities do come under the ministry.
Contents
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1 Senior officials
2 Departments within the Ministry of Education
3 Universities administrated
4 List of ministers
5 See also
6 External links
Senior officials[edit]
Minister of Education - Akila Viraj Kariyawasam
State Minister - V.S. Radhakrishnan
Permanent Secretary - Mr Bandusena
Additional Secretaries
Senadeera
H U Prematilaka
S U Wijeratna
Ilangasinghe
Ashoka Senanai Hewage
S.P.Jayathunga
Departments within the Ministry of Education[edit]
Department of Examinations
Universities administrated[edit]
Advanced Technological Institute
Buddhasravaka Bhiksu University
Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka
List of ministers[edit]
List of Ministers of Education
See also[edit]
Education in Sri Lanka
List of schools in Sri Lanka
ISURU Linux
External links[edit]
Government of Sri Lanka
Ministry of Education Sri Lanka
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South Eastern University
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Uva Wellassa University
University of the Visual & Performing Arts
Wayamba University
Former
Ceylon University College
University of Ceylon
University of Sri Lanka
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Compulsory leadership training for undergraduates
Inter University Students' Federation
Ragging
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Colombo International Nautical and Engineering College
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Military institutions
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