User talk:Cathyb651

April 2021
Hello Cathyb651. 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 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:Cathyb651. 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) 18:13, 19 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello, ElKevbo. I apologize for any offense and did not mean to violate any rules. I was asked to update the incorrect information on the page, which is several years out of date. As per your instruction, I put the required employer disclosure on my user page.
 * Please advise the best way for me to make the corrections without violating any policy.
 * Cathyb651 (talk) 20:12, 19 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the quick response!
 * If you have a close relationship with a subject that has an article and you think that article should be edited - updated, changed, etc. - then in many cases the best thing to do is to place a request or suggestion in the article's Talk page. You can do this informally with just a normal message in the Talk page or you can do this more formally with the appropriate template (which is probably easiest to use through the Edit Request Wizard). If you don't get a timely response, feel free to drop me a line on my User Talk page or see if other editors who have an interest in articles about colleges and universities can help. ElKevbo (talk) 21:01, 19 April 2021 (UTC)