User talk:Pbabadelis

Connection to Berkeley College?

Do you have a connection to Berkeley College? ElKevbo (talk) 20:44, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I do. Why did you erase our edits? Pbabadelis (talk) 21:18, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a connection to the subject of an article, you should review our policies related to conflicts of interest. If you're being paid to edit an article, you must review and comply with our policies related to paid editing. Additionally, if you're sharing an account with multiple people - you used the plural possessive "our" in your statement above - then that is also prohibited and you should have each of your colleagues create their own accounts if they want to edit articles.

Your most recent edit was problematic in many ways. It was inherently biased. It didn't provide reliable sources. It included information we don't include in articles, including articles about colleges and universities. Please remember that this is an encyclopedia; it's not another vehicle to promote your college. ElKevbo (talk) 21:52, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2021

Hello Pbabadelis. 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:Pbabadelis. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Pbabadelis|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) 16:43, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]