User talk:JkelleyBROOKS

March 2019
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Brooks School, you may be blocked from editing. John from Idegon (talk) 15:26, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello JkelleyBROOKS. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Brooks School, 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:JkelleyBROOKS. 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. John from Idegon (talk) 16:33, 26 March 2019 (UTC) I am not directly or indirectly compensated for my Wikipedia edits by Brooks School or any other institution, company, group, or organization.JkelleyBROOKS (talk) 16:53, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You are employed by them and have asserted your employment by them as a reason for an edit. So were you lying then or are you lying now??? John from Idegon (talk) 17:03, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

I am employed by the school, and my interest in having up-to-date and accurate information about the school on its page is as a result of said employment. I am not compensated for editing the page. My edits are in good faith and the interest of an accurate portrayal of the school (such as the non-existant Mascot and interscholastic sport offerings). If your assertion that my employment by nature disqualifies me from keeping this page accurate and up-to-date, I will cease editing the page.JkelleyBROOKS (talk) 17:16, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You have an inherent conflict of interest due to your employment. Simply follow best practice for editors with conflicts outlined at WP:COI. Can you clarify something? What name do the school's athletic teams compete under? That is referred to as the school's mascot by many on Wikipedia, a position I find weak at best. Feel free to make edit requests on the talk page, but take them one thing at a time please and provide reliable secondary sources for any changes you want made. Thanks. If you ping me when making requests, I'll review them as expediently as possible. John from Idegon (talk) 00:43, 27 March 2019 (UTC)