User talk:Bnwait

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! S Philbrick (Talk)  18:19, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020
Hello Bnwait. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Paladin Career and Technical High School, 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:Bnwait. 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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:45, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello Justlettersandnumers. I am not a paid advocate or receiving compensation for any edits. However, I do have a COI and after now reading the links you sent I should have stated such. I work for the school and was attempting to update information to accurate information such as year established and the number of students served. I should have used the request edit template or by posting a note on the COI noticeboard. Bnwait (talk) 22:16, 3 December 2020 (UTC)bnwait
 * Hi, it looks like when you posted the request edit template, Wikipedia thought you were requesting an edit to your talk page. I removed the { brackets around edit request in your response to deactivate this false request.
 * I also want to thank you for declaring your conflict of interest. I suggest you read Conflict of interest to understand Wikipedia's guidelines about editing an article of someone you know. For instructions on how to use the request edit template, please see Template:Request edit/Instructions. Feel free to post below or at the help desk if you have any questions, and happy editing! Z1720 (talk) 22:31, 3 December 2020 (UTC)