User talk:Maria Asteinza

August 2022
Hello, I'm -Alabama-. I noticed that in this edit to St. Francis College, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. -Alabama- (talk) 17:56, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello Maria Asteinza. 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:Maria Asteinza. 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) 23:20, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard for Incidents
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 16:18, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

August 2022
 Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, as you did at St. Francis College. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text  at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must: Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:51, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
 * State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
 * Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.
 * Hi! You were asked on 17 August to disclose your paid relationship to St. Francis College, but did not respond in any way. In this project communication is required: if you're asked to comply with a fundamental requirement of the Terms of Use, you are expected to do so or explain why you think you don't need to. Once you've made disclosure (here on this page is fine), you can request that your account be unblocked. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:58, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Director of Integrated Communications 72.89.80.215 (talk) 19:52, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
 * If you wish to be unblocked, please read the Wikipedia policy on paid contributions and also the guide to being unblocked. You will also have to tell the admins what you intend to contribute, beyond the article about your employer. Matuko (talk) 04:59, 22 August 2022 (UTC)