User talk:LindseyOpsahl

Hello LindseyOpsahl. 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 SEI Investments Company, and that 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:LindseyOpsahl. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. jcc (tea and biscuits) 20:05, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

October 2018
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at SEI Investments Company, you may be blocked from editing. ''Also, your attempt to censor the controversy regarding Stanford is utterly unacceptable. That is valid, referenced, content. We don't care if SEI finds it embarrassing. It is a notable part of the company's history and it stays.'' DanielRigal (talk) 20:45, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page SEI Investments Company has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. ''Using deliberately misleading edit summaries to try to hide that you are removing valid information that you regard as embarrassing is not going to work. We are not fools. Also, it is strongly suggestive of editing in bad faith and makes it more likely that you will be blocked from editing. Please do not do it again.'' DanielRigal (talk) 20:49, 25 October 2018 (UTC)