User talk:Andrew.whiskin

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Again, welcome! EphemeralPerpetuals (they/them) talk 22:35, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024
Hello, I'm Arjayay. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions&#32;to International Grammar School have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. - Arjayay (talk) 22:35, 14 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Arjayay, can you give further info? What criteria is that decision based on? :)
 * The change I made was to update the word 'alumni' to 'alums' as the latter is a gender neutral term.
 * Merriam-Webster dictionary corroborates this information: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/alumni-or-alumnus-usage-guide Andrew.whiskin (talk) 22:46, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * "Alums" sounds too informal to me. Besides, "alumni" is gender neutral as well. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:31, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * "Alums" is the term used by the school itself, even on the public-facing website:
 * https://www.igssyd.nsw.edu.au/community-3/alums/ Andrew.whiskin (talk) 03:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello Andrew.whiskin. 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.

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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:Andrew.whiskin. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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. 331dot (talk) 09:43, 16 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Done, thanks for the heads up!
 * I have also added a post to the talk page for International Grammar School but nobody has yet reviewed or added those changes.
 * Would be great if you could take a look and help me out with the minor edit I proposed… Andrew.whiskin (talk) 10:04, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * You need to mark your talk page post as a formal edit request in order to draw the attention of editors(especially those not following that particular article). I will do this for you, but please see the edit request procedure for future reference. 331dot (talk) 10:19, 16 January 2024 (UTC)