User talk:Awille7

Conflict of interest
Hello Awille7. 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 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:Awille7. 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. ElKevbo (talk) 21:36, 30 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi ElKevbo,
 * I'm very sorry about that. I do work for Moraine Park Technical College's marketing department and have disclosed my affiliation as requested. I was not aware this is required.
 * I also didn't know about the talk pages. My recent edit was to correct a sentence that was misleading. Would it be ok to bring up the topic in the talk pages and to provide some sources for other information like program names? Madison Area Technical College is our sister College, so I would like to improve our profile in a similar way.
 * Best,
 * Adrian Awille7 (talk) 13:50, 1 May 2024 (UTC)


 * We welcome your suggestions and requests in the article's Talk page! ElKevbo (talk) 02:46, 2 May 2024 (UTC)