User talk:Bwlauer

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Happy editing! Tacyarg (talk) 18:22, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

February 2022

Hello Bwlauer. 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:Bwlauer. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bwlauer|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) 22:53, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Yes I do work for Santa Fe Community College while making these edits. In addition to making the above mentioned amendment to user page, what other actions do I need to do in order to fully disclose this with Wikipedia?

Thanks. Bwlauer (talk) 22:20, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clear and honest disclosure. There are similar templates that you'd want to use if you edit the college's article or other related articles. But it's a best practice to simply request and suggest edits for articles where you have a conflict of interest to minimize the chance of that being a problem.

Please let me know if you need any other help! ElKevbo (talk) 00:04, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, are there templates, or a place documenting these templates, that I can use specifically? Would I display the

This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by {{{employer}}} for their contributions to Wikipedia.

template within the article directly, or just on my user profile?

Again thank you 198.176.219.203 (talk) 22:40, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Connected contributor (paid) template can be used for this and it's placed in the article's Talk page. WP:COIPAYDISCLOSE discusses this and has a version of the template that you can easily copy and fill out. ElKevbo (talk) 00:47, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]