User talk:Drawlinson

April 2019

Hello Drawlinson. 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:Drawlinson. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Drawlinson|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. I noticed that you were editing the article University of Central Florida College of Education and Human Performance to take into account the changes from the Summer of 2018. However as you are an employee of UCF, you need to follow the Paid Editing disclosure rules. Naraht (talk) 16:47, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I work for the college. The page is outdated as we were realigned. I will notate my employer on my talk page. Drawlinson (talk) 17:46, 10 April 2019 (UTC)drawlinson

Thank you. Note, generally talk pages use colons at the beginning to provide intentation. Just curious, given that it is a merger, would it make more sense to create a new page about the new college and put the colleges that merged into in the past tense? (restoring old versions of articles is not a problem) The page is still named University of Central Florida College of Education and Human Performance and while it can be moved, I'm just wondering about the transition of the two into one.Naraht (talk) 17:58, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes, perhaps that is the best thing to do. I like your suggestion. We can work on that. Who restores the old version? Sorry for moving ahead without fully understanding the process. Drawlinson (talk) 18:02, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

I have done two things. Restored the existing article back to the way that it was. Edits can be done later to indicate that it is no longer exists with a link to the new one when created. The other thing that I have done is copied the article as of your last edit and put in your sandbox at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Drawlinson/sandbox (you can also get there by clicking sandbox at the top of the page). There are other things that will need to be tweeked like the UCF template, but I think getting the new page into the point where it can be created is the first priority.Naraht (talk) 18:44, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

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