User talk:BusyBeav24

August 2024

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because it has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must follow all these steps:

Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement; and
Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked; and
Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked; and
Provide a new username.

To do this, insert the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked.

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Cullen328 (talk) 20:31, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Osubusiness. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Oregon State University College of Business ‎, 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:Osubusiness. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Osubusiness|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. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:21, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Osubusiness, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by Oregon State University on behalf of College of Business for their contributions to Wikipedia.

. Osubusiness (talk) 22:12, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

BusyBeav24 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

BusyBeav24 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

updating username to remove OSU university acronym and conduct edits to degree offerings remove old, defunct ones replace with new undergraduate and graduate business degrees; update location information (campuses) for study; (remove) link to the dean, currently linked to a different person with same name

Decline reason:

You have now complied with the paid editing policy, and your proposed new username would be fine. However, you will need to review conflict of interest and tell us what will change about your future contributions, as well as any other topics you might edit about as a general contributor. (you don't need to make the COI disclosure, the paid disclosure covers that) 331dot (talk) 07:23, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, the scope of edits to wikipedia will be focused on factual changes to the research and educational offerings that have occurred over the past 3 to 4 years. Right now, we don't have the master's of science degree program listed, and we have changed the MBA areas of study, as well as the PhD areas of study. We have added academic research centers that are not listed yet. (we have one listed on our wiki page, but it changed names about three years ago.) All edits will be focused on accuracy of basic information. Colleges update research and degree programs fairly consistently, responding to technology changes and business changes. Thank you for your consideration! Osubusiness (talk) 17:45, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I have my user name updated away from using the university acronym, can I ask for an approval on edits made during this time period, please? This is degree program updates, for undergraduate and graduate studies, and the reference to the dean, that is linked to a person of the same name (but not the OSU dean) BusyBeav24 (talk) 17:27, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You need to be unblocked first. This kind of highlights the fundamental problem with using Wikipedia not as an encyclopedia, which it is, but as a directory, which it isn't. Wikipedia is simply not designed, in form or function, to be an up-to-date listing of a school's current course offerings. Everything you contribute still has to be sourced and verifiable, and if you are unblocked, the most that's likely to be allowed is you proposing edits on the talk page, not direct edits, and there's no definite timeframe for other editors to evaluate and integrate those edits. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 17:33, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(I will look at the dean thing now though; I assume no admin would consider my investigating that to be constitute a proxy edit) CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 17:34, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to request these edits, please:

The two introduction sentences of our page. I am requesting a slight re-wording in order to add the reference to OSU's status as a land-grant university. The second sentence adds "and design" after business. The college has four degree offerings in design disciplines.

The Oregon State University College of Business is one of 12 colleges based at the Corvallis, Oregon campus of Oregon State University, Oregon's [land-grant university]. The college offers business and design coursework and degrees, with students studying at the main campus, OSU-Cascades campus in Bend, or anywhere in the world through the university's Ecampus. BusyBeav24 (talk) 20:20, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This crosses the line into a proxy edit for me. The last one was an obvious mistake in who was linked. It is against Wikipedia policy to fulfill edit requests for a blocked user. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 21:13, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I could request edits for review here in the Talk space? There are a lot of inaccuracies on the page. We have design faculty (professors) who do not see their inclusion on our college wiki page, and two words added could include then. BusyBeav24 (talk) 23:36, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Making edit request on the talk pages for the school *is* the correct way to do that. However, it's the correct way to do it once you're unblocked. Right now, you don't have any editing privileges on Wikipedia, and are only allowed to use the talk page for constructive issues related to that block. At some point, a reviewing admin will look this over and decide if they're comfortable with you editing again. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 01:21, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]