User talk:CCardenas-nocccd

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, CCardenas-nocccd. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page North Orange County Community College District, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the edit COI template)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see );
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see );
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. — Grand&#39;mere Eugene (talk) 18:57, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

June 2024
Hello CCardenas-nocccd. 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:CCardenas-nocccd. 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) 21:48, 6 June 2024 (UTC)


 * I literally corrected a factual error. Yes, I work for the District. It's my job to ensure the factual information is correct. So, if I owned a company and the name of the company was misspelled on Wikepedia, I wouldn't be allowed to correct it? CCardenas-nocccd (talk) 21:54, 6 June 2024 (UTC)


 * We appreciate you bringing the error to our attention. Most editors are generally okay with paid employees making uncontroversial edits, particularly simple corrections to outdated information so your recent update to the college's president remains in the article.
 * With that said, this project has very clear requirements that require editors who are being paid to promote a subject to disclose that relationship. And editors with a conflict of interest are strongly discouraged from editing the relevant article(s) and instead make suggestions and requests in Talk. ElKevbo (talk) 22:53, 6 June 2024 (UTC)