User talk:Csmithepe

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Hello, Csmithepe. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Connecticut, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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 * Please note:you are required to make full disclosure of your conflict both on your userpage, but on every page you edit for compensation. Please use the appropriate templates for both. John from Idegon (talk) 20:31, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi John, since I heard from MattLongCT, I've been adding my proposed edits to Talk pages instead of directly editing. In those proposed edits, I've said that I work for Education Week. I'm not sure which template I should use to disclose that on the Talk page - can you point me to the right one? Thanks so much for your help and for your patience. Csmithepe (talk) 20:44, 11 February 2019 (UTC)Csmithepe
 * Nope. You get paid. I don't. Figure it out. John from Idegon (talk) 20:47, 11 February 2019 (UTC)


 * See WP:DISCLOSEPAY and Connected contributor (paid). Mathglot (talk) 07:42, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Your additions of EdWeek's state education system rankings/gradings - please include a synopsis of their criteria used for the grades/ranks and secondary source(s)
Hi, Csmithepe! I saw your recent edits and requests for edits. Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia!

I would like to suggest that you include a synopsis of the criteria that EdWeek uses to generate these rankings, since otherwise it just appears as some organization's opinions, in ALL articles you would like these EdWeek state grades added to, or at least include a link stating that the criteria used for ranking can be found here.....maybe the reference for the Chance-for-Success word should point to that.

The criteria for their first two rankings (Chance-for-Success and School Finance) appear to be found here: https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/01/17/how-we-graded-the-states.html

I also agree with Spintendo, you should find someone else who is citing your reports; see Wikipedia's guidelines on primary and secondary sources.

Thanks for your contributions, and for openly stating your Conflict of Interest. ---Avatar317 (talk) 06:37, 12 February 2019 (UTC)Avatar317