User talk:Iowa Technology Institute

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Hello Iowa Technology Institute. 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:Iowa Technology Institute. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 14:57, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, 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:Iowa Technology Institute, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. -- VViking Talk Edits 15:10, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I am new to editing on Wikipedia. The Iowa Technology Institute is a research institute within the University of Iowa. The information I attempted to post is for educational purposes only. We have no expectation to profit from the edits, nor does the information provided encourage or influence profit. University of Iowa is a nonprofit higher education organization identified on Wikipedia as "a level-5 vital article in Society... This article has been rated as C-Class." The Institute falls under this umbrella. I work for the University of Iowa and this research Institute. My position is paid. I do not have a financial stake nor am I receiving any special compensation for editing/posting on Wikipedia. The Iowa Technology Institute also does not have a financial stake in this post, nor does the University of Iowa. It is strictly informational. [User_talk:Iowa_Technology_Institute]Iowa Technology Institute (talk) 17:30, 4 March 2021 (UTC)