Wikipedia talk:Article wizard

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The Common Mistakes page does not make clear that employees writing about their business are considered paid editors and should make a paid editing declaration. I often see drafts created about a business where the editor has merely declared a conflict of interest, implying that they are an employee. Employees merely see the option "I'm paid to edit", which does not obviously apply to them, so they choose the option "I'm writing about myself, or a close person/subject". Helpful Raccoon (talk) 21:28, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Helpful Raccoon What about changing the button to "I'm paid to edit or writing about my employer"? --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 14:53, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your suggestion also works; we can implement it and go from there if there are still editors who choose the wrong option. I was just concerned that it might not be clear enough for new editors if there isn't a separate button. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 22:48, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Helpful Raccoon  Done --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 17:40, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great, I think it's helping already! (Also I realized I never even suggested a separate button...) Helpful Raccoon (talk) 07:07, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have created WP:Article wizard/CreateDraftCOI and WP:Article wizard/COIEditingGuidelinesPaid/WP:Article wizard/CreateDraftPaid that use Template:AfC preload/draft/sandbox to automatically add a paid or coi disclaimer to drafts. We could link to these from Wikipedia:Article wizard/HowToDisclose and WP:Article wizard/COIEditingGuidelines to make the disclosure process a little more seamless and to make it more obvious to reviewers. Thoughts? --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:02, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. I've tested it out to the best of my ability, and implemented it in the Wizard, but feel free to revert if I broke anything. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 17:39, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've noticed this appearing on drafts, but I think it's best placed on the draft talk page; and this doesn't help users post it to their user page. Many new users also I think don't understand the difference between a COI and paid editing- most assume that they must be specifically paid to edit or asked to edit(which isn't the case) so they just disclose a COI. 331dot (talk) 10:00, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The comment gets moved to the talk page by the AFCH tool when the draft is accepted, and the wording in the Wizard has been changed to say "I'm paid to edit or I'm writing about my employer". The Wizard also still has a step for paid edits to post a disclosure on their user page before continuing, although there's no way to enforce that. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 16:09, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This does address the issue of people who thought they were disclosing by checking a box in the wizard. I thank you for your work. 331dot (talk) 10:47, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just a minor note, the comment only gets moved if the reviewer tells AFCH to do it; it's not automatic. That being said, I suspect most reviewers will recognise that sort of comment should be moved to the talk page upon acceptance. Primefac (talk) 13:29, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a lot of banners at the top of this page, but yet without link to documentation of how to write such a wizard on my wiki. Gryllida (talk, e-mail) 09:17, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]