User talk:Sshelley-sghs

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Sydney Girls High School

Thank you for updating Sydney Girls High School! If you would, please use a more complete source. i.e. include title, dates, work, etc. It helps to fix wp:linkrot and allows people to know where they are linking to. See help:referencing for beginners. Try wp:RefToolbar/2.0 it's available at the top of the default Wiki editor under "> Cite". Cheers Jim1138 talk 22:52, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing

Hello Sshelley-sghs. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Sydney Girls High School, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Sshelley-sghs. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Sshelley-sghs|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. --Hammersoft (talk) 11:46, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I do indeed work at Sydney Girls High School. I only started to edit the page as it has been neglected with so many out-of-date citations that link to a website that no longer exists. There is also a lot of out of date information. I can stop editing the page if necessary but, as I say, it doesn't appear that anyone is fixing the numerous errors and out-of-date information. Krustii (talk) 12:46, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]