User talk:Stonecofcbm

Why couldn't I have gotten that internship!

Welcome to Wikipedia! As a CofC alum, I was stoked and jealous when I saw that you were getting paid by CofC to edit Wikipedia. Thanks for your contributions and keep up the good work. Muttnick (talk) 14:00, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No way! That is awesome to hear! I graduate this coming May. This internship has been amazing and challenging at the same time. I never knew truly how much went into the back end of editing for wikipedia!

Yeah, it's quite impressive. I mostly stick to creating articles but there is plenty of stuff to do. Congrats on the graduation! Muttnick (talk) 16:50, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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October 2020

Hello Stonecofcbm. 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 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:Stonecofcbm. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Stonecofcbm|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. 331dot (talk) 08:57, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello 331 dot, I am not being compensating for any of my editing nor am I expecting to be compensated at any period. I apologize for any of my mistakes and accidents. Wikipedia is still new to me and it has taken a lot to learn the system. Please, let me know what I can do to be a better user of Wikipedia. Thank you!

What is your connection to the College of Charleston? 331dot (talk) 16:06, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am a student at the college. I was asked inside a internship to edit a selection of pages that relate to the College of Charleston.

Please note that being an intern, even if not paid in money, counts as a paid editor. Per WP:PAID: "Interns are considered employees for this purpose. If they are directed or expected to edit Wikipedia as part of an internship, they must disclose." So you will need to make the paid editing disclosure, please. 331dot (talk) 22:38, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No problem 331 dot, I will make the disclosure. I apologize again for any inconvenience. Once I make the disclosure on my page, am I then allowed to edit again within the confines of Wikipedia rules as long as it is not a conflict of interest? Thank you!

Also, on my userpage I believe I made the correct additions needed for disclosure, may I ask of your assistance to confirm that it is correct? Thank you!

Yes, you did it correctly, thank you. If you have no conflict of interest with a subject, you are certainly free to edit it yourself. If you wish to edit about the college itself again, you will need to do that as an edit request on the talk page. 331dot (talk) 08:04, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]