User talk:Anne W Wilson

October 2019
Thanks @Magnolia677, I'm new to this and was unaware. I appreciate your guidance and have added a line to my user page. I will be mindful going forward. My apologies.

(Anne W Wilson (talk) 18:57, 7 October 2019 (UTC))

Hello Anne W Wilson. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to William James College, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Anne W Wilson. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:21, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hey Anne, Wikipedia is really tight on this policy, and your edits seemed a bit promotional. If there are sections that really need updating, a good way to do it is to make suggested edits on the article talk page. We're all volunteers here so it may be a while before anyone does the edit though.  Thanks for your nice response.  Cheers!  Magnolia677 (talk) 21:32, 7 October 2019 (UTC)