User talk:Dufresnel

Reply to Magnolia677
Thank you for the reply. I am not a stakeholder for the Miami Dade Public Library. I was just trying to complete a homework assignment and had no idea that by entering that information which is also public, I was violating Wikipedia's laws. The assignment in which this was for was basically to edit information in Wikipedia with truthful information. I just assumed that since there was a section on "Donation" in the Wiki page, that I might go a little further to let others know if they wanted to donate, where they can actually go and how they can actually donate. I apologize profusely and know now not to enter any information that may seem like I'm asking for money. Again, this was only for a class project. I can provide you with information to prove this.

Dufresnel (talk) 22:00, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know this was a homework assignment. Wikipedia often gets spammed by people trying to sell stuff or get money, so when I saw your edit I reverted it.  Also, the links you added were helpful, but weren't added in a Wikipedia style.  If you look below you will see some links in the "Wikipedia Adventure" that will help you learn more about how to edit.  If I was your teacher I would give you an A+ for effort and your diplomatic skills would also get an A+.  If you have an editing questions feel free to ask on my talk page.  Cheers.  Magnolia677 (talk) 22:49, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Dufresnel! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 19:38, Wednesday, January 9, 2019 (UTC)

March 2019
Hello Dufresnel. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Miami-Dade Public Library System, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Dufresnel. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:10, 10 March 2019 (UTC)