User talk:SimonFlyer

August 2022

Hello SimonFlyer. 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:SimonFlyer. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=SimonFlyer|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. PRAXIDICAE🌈 22:31, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean? I am not getting paid in editing as many other Wikipedia editors. I don't think this is promoting the university either. People who are interested in the university will get the information they want from the article, and people who are not interested in the university will not get interested just because they read the Wikipedia article. SimonFlyer (talk) 23:11, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You are adding extremely promotional material, so I have a hard time believing you have no connection. PRAXIDICAE🌈 23:14, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, this is hardly a "promotional" matter. Notice that, in the first place, it is the readers who would take the initiative to search for the article. The subject could not be called to the readers' attention by any of our editors through any materials we added, whether these materials are "promotional" or not. Not to mention how vague the definition of "promotional material" is. SimonFlyer (talk) 17:15, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Who is "we" and what is your connection to the university? PRAXIDICAE🌈 17:24, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]