User talk:Editorbaby

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Editorbaby. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * 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 WP:PAID. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:06, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

September 2019
Hello Editorbaby. 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 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:Editorbaby. 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. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:23, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Would respond if I knew how. Sorry. I am not paid by the student newspaper, the school, or otherwise. Just happen to read and watch their work and think it's silly that the younger, monthly paper has information up there but the 90 year old primary paper does not.
 * Hi Editorbaby and welcome to Wikipedia. I absolutely see where you are coming from, and agree, but the content you are adding was unsourced and seems promotional. Everything on Wikipedia must be sourced to reliable sources that are preferably independent from the institution. As well, we do not add external links into the body of the article. I understand Wikipedia has a learning curve but please keep these in mind when editing and don't be afraid to ask questions at the WP:TEAHOUSE. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:30, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Shall I re-edit the article without external links in the body? Confused by the comment of "unsourced and promotional," as there were sources and it was no more promotional than the rest of the page and less than that of the below paper. Please explain.
 * Hi Editorbaby and thanks for the response. I see now that the content you added was copied directly from the school's website. This is not allowed as Wikipedia per Wikipedia's copyright rules. If you want to add content, please write it in your own words. However, to be frank, we do not care what the school has to say about themselves. If it is important, third parties will write about them. If you google what specific awards they have won, it doesn't even seem that significant or worth mentioning. I know this can be confusing for new editors but school websites are just that, websites for the school. Their goal is to promote themselves. Therefore, we rely on third-party sources to weed out the junk. You may want to complete the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:43, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, Editorbaby, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


 * Introduction and Getting started
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article
 * Simplified Manual of Style

You may also want to complete the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit the Teahouse to ask questions or seek help.

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:32, 15 September 2019 (UTC)