User talk:Joybrenn3

March 2021
Hello Joybrenn3. 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:Joybrenn3. 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. ElKevbo (talk) 03:32, 12 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi- I am the marketing person for Bristol community College. I am updating very out of date information. If I don’t update who should. It is old and much of it wrong. Joybrenn3 (talk) 03:35, 12 March 2021 (UTC)


 * This link will step you through the process of requesting edits be made by other editors. ElKevbo (talk) 03:49, 12 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Also, the logo is no longer used and outdated. How can I get our current logo posted? Thank you for your help. Joybrenn3 (talk) 03:37, 12 March 2021 (UTC)


 * This link will step you through the process of uploading an image so it can be used in the article. For a college logo, you'll almost certainly want to select the "Upload a non-free file" option. Once that's done, you can use the link above or just post a message in the article's Talk page to ask someone to help add the updated logo. (If you don't get a response there, you can also drop a line at the higher education project; more editors probably watch that Talk page than the Talk page for your college.)
 * And be sure to follow the instructions above about documenting your connection to the college. Let me know if you need help! ElKevbo (talk) 03:49, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * ElKevbo, I was about to block this editor: they clearly do not understand what it means to edit in a neutral manner. (Even if that copyright issue is cleared up that content still will not make it into the article, Joybrenn3.) And they still haven't done a proper COI declaration. Drmies (talk) 18:01, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I trust your judgment but it's worth noting that she has not edited again after our exchange just above. I don't see any harm in leaving her unblocked for now to see if she will begin making edit requests. I'll be sure to let you know if she returns to editing the article directly and adding POV material. ElKevbo (talk) 20:10, 12 March 2021 (UTC)