User talk:Lucass021

Hello, Lucass021, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:

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Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Lucass021. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page St. Francis Catholic Secondary School, 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, company, organization or competitors;
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disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:17, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 2019[edit]

Hello Lucass021. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Lucass021. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Lucass021|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. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:50, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: Hello, I understand your concern, however I am currently a student, and am not being compensated in any form by the organization that I am adding relevant information to. I am simply a former student of the institution, and have decided to add information directly from their website, and the website of the administration board.

→== March 2019 ==

You still have not responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. John from Idegon (talk) 17:08, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@John from Idegon: I have responded to the previous inquiry. I am not being compensated by the organization that I am adding information to. I am simply a former student, and am wishing to add information sourced directly from the school and school board websites.

Your ping did not work. In order for a ping to work, you must sign your message by typing four tildes at the end. Here's the thing...we aren't much interested in what the school says about itself. That's not what an encyclopedia article is about. An encyclopedia article should be made up of information written about the school and published in reliable secondary sources which you should cite. There are only two types of things that can be sourced to the school. First, is absolutely mundane statements of fact on topics that we generally cover where the information is not available elsewhere. An example might be the principal's name, or a simple listing of AP courses offered. We will include simple neutral historical narratives, paraphrased from, and cited to the school's website, as long as it contains no controversial facts or claims of achievement or primacy - those require secondary sources. Thanks for wanting to improve your school's article. Just remember, it isn't for the school, it's about what others have written on the school. John from Idegon (talk) 20:43, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]