User talk:Stevehj

A belated welcome![edit]

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Stevehj! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! 〜 Adflatuss • talk 20:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Connection to the Claremont School of Theology‎?[edit]

Do you have a connection to the Claremont School of Theology‎? ElKevbo (talk) 21:55, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am the Chief Operations Officer. 2601:484:C100:2E0:DD9B:AD26:F0AC:4D80 (talk) 22:17, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Stevehj. You have a financial stake in promoting a topic and you are required to comply 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.

Paid advocates are 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 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:Stevehj. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Stevehj|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) 22:34, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am not being directly or indirectly paid to make the edits; they are freely given as matters of fact and clarity. I will create a user page that states that. Thank you. 2601:484:C100:2E0:DD9B:AD26:F0AC:4D80 (talk) 22:44, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless, you still have a clear conflict of interest and I strongly encourage you to read through our conflict of interest policies and practices. Please let me know if you have any questions or need any help! ElKevbo (talk) 22:48, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I do need help. How would people not connected to the school have knowledge of some of the facts that need to be added or edited. It's only with detailed first-hand knowledge can some of those edits be made. Help me understand. I will create my user page. Stevehj (talk) 23:19, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We rely on published, reliable sources. ElKevbo (talk) 23:21, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you direct me to the page I need to declare that I am connected to the school? How does this effect other edits to un-related items on Wikipedia? Stevehj (talk) 23:25, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I do believe all the edits I made to this page had published sources in the citations. Stevehj (talk) 23:27, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]