User talk:CorenG

January 2024

Hello, I'm JeffSpaceman. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, University of Puget Sound, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. JeffSpaceman (talk) 18:48, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello CorenG. 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 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 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:CorenG. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=CorenG|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. ElKevbo (talk) 23:50, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have just updated my user page with the disclosure. Are there any other steps I need to take in order to continue editing? Thanks. CorenG (talk) 00:05, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick reply and explicit disclosure!

Editors are strongly discouraged from editing articles about subjects with which they have a paid relationship or a similarly strong conflict of interest. They are instead recommended to make suggestions and requests in the article Talk page. ElKevbo (talk) 00:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will do that from now on. Thank you for the assistance. CorenG (talk) 23:53, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]