User talk:Tracy Weber

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Welcome!

Hello, Tracy Weber, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Portland State University. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Aboutmovies (talk) 03:38, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

removing content and the minor tag

Tracy, you've removed this paragraph twice today. The first time your edit summary was misleading. The second time you didn't have an edit summary. In both cases you used the minor edit checkbox.

Using the minor edit checkbox is wrong- it's clearly not a minor edit. Further, you haven't communicated why you are removing the content. Please do so- preferably as a new section at Talk:Portland State University. tedder (talk) 22:54, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

February 2012

Hello Tracy Weber. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Portland State University, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
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Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Valfontis (talk) 01:53, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Thanks for the update on the Portland State page. If you get a moment, please join in the continuing discussion on the article's talk page, it's good to engage with the community. Cheers, Valfontis (talk) 03:31, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Also, don't miss our new Wikipedia:WikiProject Cooperation--help for paid editors. Valfontis (talk) 03:37, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

August 2023

Hello Tracy Weber. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Portland State University, 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:Tracy Weber. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Tracy Weber|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. Reputation management, Marketing & Communications/Public Relations editing without explicit disclosure. Even if disclosed, editing your own organization's page directly is STRONGLY discouraged. Graywalls (talk) 17:28, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I work at PSU, but me adding in the new President, who started Aug. 1st, has no financial reward or stake on my part. I just want the information on the page to be as up-to-date and correct as possible. You can confirm the new President here: pdx.edu/president Tracy Weber (talk) 17:32, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I realized you did mention a while ago, although it was not conspicuous, so I didn't see it. Nonetheless, looking at your edit pattern, you've been making more than subtle edits and it appears you only use it to work on this article. Making edits to the talk page through WP:ERW is the preferred method. If you put in the request, other volunteer editors who don't necessarily monitor this talk page will see the request. Graywalls (talk) 17:40, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The main edits I have done were over a decade ago in 2012, one to delete a paragraph that was about a PSU/OSHU merger that never happened, and to change the school color to green instead of purple since purple is the University of Portland's color, not PSU. Someone, not me, has done some major edits on the page over the past few years, but I do not know who it is. All I did this time was to add the new president's name. Part of my job is to make sure the information out on the web is as accurate and up-to-date as possible. Tracy Weber (talk) 20:24, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]