User talk:Kirsty at ChiUni

Your username
Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created University of Chichester, and I noticed that your username, "Chiuni", 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, 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, 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 this form, 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. Aloneinthewild (talk) 21:51, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Kirsty at ChiUni. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * 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 must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID). ''I strongly advise you do not edit the Chichester University article directly if you have a conflict of interest. Instead it would be better to follow the edit request guideline.'' Aloneinthewild (talk) 22:27, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

August 2019
Hello Kirsty at ChiUni. 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 Chichester University, 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:Kirsty at ChiUni. 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.  Tony Holkham   (Talk)  12:14, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

responding to your message today
Hi Tony,

With regards to your confirm, I work for the University and am simply updating their Wikipedia page. I am new to this so in the process of learning how to source further copy I write.

I hope this clarifies things?

Thanks.


 * Kirsty, it does clarify, thanks, but you need to add the "paid" template to your user page as explained above.
 * Also, please sign any talk page edits with four tildes ( ~ ), which will add your user name and the date.
 * Thanks, T.  Tony Holkham   (Talk)  15:59, 7 August 2019 (UTC)