User talk:Hood College Marketing

June 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Hood College Marketing", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because It implies shared use by a group or organization. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. SPF121188 ^{(talk this way)} ^(contribs) 13:00, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Hood College Marketing. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Hood College, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. SPF121188 ^{(talk this way)} ^(contribs) 13:22, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The edits made are from the Hood College Factbook (https://www.hood.edu/sites/default/files/OIRA/Fact%20Sheet%202021.pdf) and were only made to update the sidebar information that hasn't been updated since 2018. If we're not allowed to update or expand upon the information in the sidebar, who can? I haven't advertised, publicized, or promoted anything. Hood College Marketing (talk) 13:49, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Thanks for responding. I understand that you haven't advertised or promoted the college, the only real problem is that your username is suggesting, directly, that this account will have shared use, specifically by the group or organization (In this case, Hood College.) If you change your username, you can make these edits without any issue whatsoever. Let me know if I can be of help! SPF121188 ^{(talk this way)} ^(contribs) 14:28, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]