User talk:Ken at MSU Texas

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July 2023
Hello MSUTexasWebmaster. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Midwestern State University, 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.

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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:MSUTexasWebmaster. 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. Kleuske (talk) 15:07, 6 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Having seen the messages above, I have checked your edits, and I don’t see any problem with them. Nevertheless, I would advise you to check the conflict of interest guideline, so make sure you avoid future problems. Also, in my opinion your username is a perfectly adequate conflict of interest declaration, but many editors and administrators take a more pedantic interpretation of the guidelines and policies, so I recommend making an explicit declaration. Again, that to avoid possible future problems, rather than because I see any problems now. JBW (talk) 15:16, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks JBW I will take a look at the guidelines. so I can still purpose changes via the talk.. but I will try to avoid editing directly in the future. Appreciate the clarification. MSUTexasWebmaster (talk) 15:30, 6 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Kleuske, I can for sure disclose that I work for msu texas if that helps. I was just hoping to make edits for truthful facts that can be verified like our colors and the president. but would not want to edit anything else that would require me to be neutral party. I don't want to break any terms of service or anything. I was under the impression I could change the verifiable facts that can be backed up with a page. MSUTexasWebmaster (talk) 15:19, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website, I have blocked this account from editing. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. Alexf(talk) 15:49, 6 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I can understand all the precautions and everything. I didn't realize all this, and this was an older account that was pulled in elsewhere. I can completely understand why it is done this way. If this is going to be an issue I may just let the page be. I only wanted to make sure that the incorrect data was fixed, and that our branding standards were corrected with new changes coming down the line and was avoiding writing anything that would be considered promotional editing. I appreciate the explanations and getting me to the correct polices. Didn't mean to cause any issues. Also before I got your message I did disclose as per COI guideline as stated in above messages. I do appreciate Wikipedia and all that you reviewers do. MSUTexasWebmaster (talk) 16:16, 6 July 2023 (UTC)