User talk:JohKerin

Date ranges
Hello @JohKerin. I am @Archer1234. I have seen your edits to articles for Michigan high schools where you have been adding the Infobox High school student assessments in Michigan template. One thing I would like to point out is that you should be using an "ndash" ("–") and not a hyphen ("-") for date ranges (see MOS:DATERANGE for the specific guidance in the Manual of Style). For example, 2021–22 is correct, but 2021-22 is not.

Hopefully you will find this information useful for your future editing. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. &mdash; Archer1234  (t·c) 18:35, 10 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for noticing. JohKerin (talk) 18:37, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
 * My concern, aside from what appears to be COI editing, is that there is no mention of adding these stats at WP:WPSCH/AG. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:34, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023
Hello JohKerin. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Template:Infobox High school student assessments in Michigan, 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:JohKerin. 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. ''You appear to be a single-purpose editor who is only here to add Michigan test scores to high schools. Do you work for an agency?'' Magnolia677 (talk) 23:31, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

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