User talk:Liverpool Hope University External Relations

February 2020
Hello, Liverpool Hope University External Relations. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Liverpool Hope University, 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:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 74.73.230.72 (talk) 14:52, 12 February 2020 (UTC) Hello Liverpool Hope University External Relations. 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 Liverpool Hope 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:Liverpool Hope University External Relations. 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. 74.73.230.72 (talk) 14:52, 12 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Apologies, I was unaware of this process. I work at the University and was asked to update information that is no longer correct, such as the current chancellor and faculty structure. How would we go about ensuring the information is updated?


 * Liverpool Hope University External Relations (talk) 15:28, 12 February 2020 (UTC)


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 * --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:22, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

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