User talk:Jamesalbertfoley

August 2020
Hello Jamesalbertfoley. 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:Jamesalbertfoley. 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. ''I note that you appear to be an employee of Rutgers' communications staff and that your edits are Rutgers related. While there haven't been any issues with your edits so far, it's important that you disclose your connection to the university.'' only (talk) 15:04, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the message. My page is updated with the disclosure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesalbertfoley (talk • contribs)
 * Thanks for doing that, Like I said, your edits haven't displayed an issue with bias or point of view, but our policies require that type of disclosure.  One of your edits was "reduced" so to speak as another user trimmed some of the new president's resume out of the article about the university to focus more on the most important/relevant aspects to the university article.  When you respond on talk pages, you can use ~ to add your signature.  Please let me know if you have any questions, only (talk) 15:25, 14 August 2020 (UTC)