User talk:Harrison The Bookman Knowles

February 2019
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Southwestern Advantage. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 14:13, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Southwestern Advantage
Hey guys I understand that you don’t want advertising on your site and I hope my edit didn’t seem like that but there are some blatant mis-informations on the post. Southwestern isn’t a Multi-level marketing company, they don’t select thousands of students each summer and it does not have “poor working conditions” each student who ends up working with the program gets to decide what their working conditions are Harrison The Bookman Knowles (talk) 14:21, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

February 2019
Hello Harrison The Bookman Knowles. 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:Harrison The Bookman Knowles. 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. bonadea contributions talk 14:35, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Southwestern Advantage, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Harrison The Bookman Knowles, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. bonadea contributions talk 14:38, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

have You even gone to the corporate website?
Dude I’m a junior business major at A&M and I did this internship my freshman and sophomore year. I’m not getting paid For editing this page. I just don’t like that you are supporting misinformation. The point of Wikipedia is to give people valid information and that’s not what’s going on here. Harrison The Bookman Knowles (talk) 14:44, 26 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not interested in what a company has to say about itself, but what independent reliable sources have to say. Since you have a conflict of intrerest (even if it is not paid) you should not edit the article directly, but use the article talk page to propose additions and other edits. Regards, --bonadea contributions talk 14:52, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Blocked
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for failure to disclose a conflict of interest with regards to paid editing. Note that internships are specifically included under Wikipedia's policy on paid editing. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Yunshui 雲 水 16:18, 27 February 2019 (UTC)