User talk:DianeMWarthen

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Happy editing! 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 21:37, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

January 2021
Hello DianeMWarthen. 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:DianeMWarthen. 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) 17:38, 11 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello ElKevbo, No, I'm not getting paid to make Wikipedia edits. I am however the Web and Social Media Developer at Montana Technological University and will be making edits on that page in the future as well as on some pages which reference the university to address the recent name change. Have I done something wrong?
 * 216.166.169.13 (talk) 23:55, 11 January 2021 (UTC)


 * It sure sounds like editing Wikipedia would be within the job description for an employee of the university with your job title! Therefore you must comply with our paid editing policy and disclose your relationship to the university. You are also strongly discouraged from editing articles related to the university; instead, you should be making requests and suggestions in the articles' Talk pages. ElKevbo (talk) 02:57, 16 January 2021 (UTC)