User talk:Gpd480

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Greeley, Colorado
I'm not sure if you're the Chief of Police, or just a friend of the Greeley PD, but I reverted your promotional edit. You removed all that weird stuff about military equipment. I was going to trim it back a few days ago, but not delete it all. Also, you can't add cut-and-paste promos to Wikipedia. I'll try to help you add your content back in a better form within the next few days. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:40, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hey friend, I updated the article with info from the police website (in Wikipedia's voice). Also, the photo was copied from the police website, so it was nuked. But if you can prove you actually took the photo, it can be re-added. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:57, 12 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello, I'm the media relations person for the Police Department. I was putting the info from our "About Us" portion of the website. But I am happy to rewrite that so it is different than what is on the website. Would it be okay to put in our non-emergency phone number and website (where people can also report crimes online)? Thanks for the explanation and all the help on this! I've never actually edited a wiki page before lol. Thanks again - Kent. 138.74.244.208 (talk) 23:05, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * And I'm happy to take a new picture, it is our photo from our website; I'm just not sure how to prove it other than sending it from the GreeleyPD.com email? (Again, happy to just snap a new one as well). I also re-read the last sentence and I meant to put "More information about the Greeley Police Department can be found on their webpage at www.GreeleyPD.com." 138.74.244.208 (talk) 23:09, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * It looks like you have a great department, and should be proud to work there. Because of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy, it would be best that you not edit the article, but you can leave edit suggestions on the article talk page.  Also, specific information, such as addresses and phone numbers, are typically not included in Wikipedia articles. If you upload a new photo I'd be happy to add it to the article.  Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 15:56, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

March 2024
Hello Gpd480. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Greeley, Colorado, 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 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 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:Gpd480. 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. Per discussion above. Magnolia677 (talk) 15:57, 13 March 2024 (UTC)