User talk:Kcreeger at Kimball Union

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, KimballUnion. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Kimball Union Academy, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Jeb3 Talk at me here What I've Done 15:15, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Kimball Union Academy, 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:KimballUnion, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Please respond as quickly as possible--time is of essence in these situations. NightlyHelper (talk) 16:04, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Your username
Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Kimball Union Academy, and I noticed that your username, "KimballUnion", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Waggie (talk) 16:26, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
You still have not responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. NightlyHelper (talk) 16:38, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

I am an employee of Kimball Union Academy in the Communications office. We are simply trying to make our entries current - there have been significant changes. Thanks

Thank you for replying. Would you mind disclosing your paid editing on your userpage? Instructions for how to do so should be on this page. Thanks. NightlyHelper (talk) 16:44, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In that reason, you must:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   16:45, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Please unblock - we are simply trying to keep our information accurate and current. We are not attempting to use Wiki for promotion. An acceptable username for us would be KUA Communications, as we are the office responsible for curating 3rd party websites that carry information about us for accuracy. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KimballUnion (talk • contribs)

{{unblock-spamun|KUA Communications|The Kimball Union entry was created by previous members of our office. We simply want to update and correct content}
 * Hello there, "KUA Communications" also would be a username policy violation, as it represents (or imples as such) an organization. Also, it's important to understand that Wikipedia articles need to be summarized from reliable, independent published sources (such as journals and newspapers). There was a great deal of content that you added that was not supported by any source, and has been removed. I'm very sorry that this hasn't been a positive experience for you, as your introduction to Wikipedia. Firstly, I would suggest you take some time to learn about our policies and guidelines (as linked in the above messages) and discuss them with us so we can help you learn more about Wikipedia before you attempt to continue further here. Thank you for your time, and best wishes. Waggie (talk) 17:18, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

I have renamed your account from KimballUnion. Please address other aspect of the block("Regarding your edits, please review the conflict of interest and paid editing policies, as well as WP:PROMO, as you essentially added the text of a promotional brochure to the article about your school. Please explain how your future edits will comply with these policies and what other subjects you will edit about as an individual contributor.")  You may do this below as just a standard, unformatted comment, as you only need one open unblock request. 331dot (talk) 18:11, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I was not attempting to include promotional material. All hyperlinks added pointed to factual content about the school; however, I can certainly refrain from pointing links to our site.

Any textual content I update reflected only factual change in content already on the page. Because it had been so long since anyone has edited the content, significant amounts of text that contained dates and other specific information were inaccurate or had changed.

Regarding being paid to work on the page, part of my job is to curate our online presence for accuracy and consistency. My editing of the Wiki is one of many sources I'm trying to correct. No person outside of our school has access to factual content and metrics on our page - it has to be someone who is an employee. The standing content that was on the page was created long ago by my predecessors before any of the new policies came into place. I was unaware of the username issue or the COI policies.

I notice that the page has been severely cut back - If I can be permitted to edit it once more, can it be restored to its former dated condition so I can edit rather than start from scratch?
 * Wikipedia should only be summarizing what independent reliable sources state about article subjects, not what the subject(or its representative) says about itself. If information is not in independent reliable sources, it shouldn't generally be on Wikipedia. Put another way, Wikipedia is interested in what others say about your school, not what it says about itself, which it is free to say on its own website. Feel free to show your superiors this message. Are there any subjects that you want to edit about that are unrelated to your conflict of interest?
 * You can access the edit history to see older versions of the article yourself. 331dot (talk) 19:15, 27 February 2020 (UTC)