User talk:MarcommCriswell

September 2023
Hello MarcommCriswell. The nature of your edits 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.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:MarcommCriswell. 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. ElKevbo (talk) 22:43, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Criswell College, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Idontknowwhattouseasmyusername300 (talk) 15:53, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Advice
I strongly recommend that you not directly edit your employer's article as you have a very clear, direct conflict-of-interest. We welcome your suggestions, recommendations, and questions in the article's Talk page! ElKevbo (talk) 23:12, 27 September 2023 (UTC)


 * "The college has been affiliated with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention since 2001 (SBTC provides some financial assistance and has representation on Criswell's board" is false information. It should be omitted from the article. Criswell College is not affiliated with the Southern Baptist of Texas Convention and the Convention does not provide financial assistance to Criswell College. MarcommCriswell (talk) 23:32, 27 September 2023 (UTC)