User talk:MartinaHeim

Welcome!
Hello, MartinaHeim, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Deggendorf Institute of Technology, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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April 2021
Hello MartinaHeim. 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:MartinaHeim. 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. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 10:29, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Update information
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It is not a webhost from which to "update" and otherwise communicate with your students. "All content must be cited from reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and have a reputation for fact checking." Content provided by employees of subjects does not meet this requirement. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 10:32, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Paid editing declaration
Thanks for including a paid editing declaration - however, it belongs on your userpage (User:MartinaHeim) instead of this one. I have moved it for you. Thanks. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:39, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

I don't see a block on this account, so why are you requesting unblock? I would note that if you are an employee of the institute, you are a paid editor, you don't have to be specifically paid for your edits. 331dot (talk) 08:41, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

I am an individual person (as stated in my user name - there's no indication in my user name to an organisation) working for the Deggendorf Institute of Technology and it is my responsibility to make sure the Wikipedia profile is up to date! We're not promoting anything on here, we're just stating facts about the university and the study degrees we offer. We don't even link them. This account runs under my individual name and not the department I'm working for, so it should be fine to edit the profile. Like you, yourself said: (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.) Our German wikipedia page runs smoothly and we were able to get verified and edit the page. Now someone put the status of the article back to 2016, which is completely outdated and provides false information about the university! Please unblock my account from making edits to our page MartinaHeim (talk) 12:24, 12 April 2021 (UTC)MartinaHeim
 * As I said, I see no block on this account, so why are you requesting to be unblocked? 331dot (talk) 14:31, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Because there's an autoblock. This user was quite properly blocked for having an inappropriate username as User talk:THDMarketing -- that would be Technische Hochschule Deggendorf, Deggendorf Institute of Technology. This new account was created to comply with the username problem, but needs to address the remaining issues. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 20:21, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

As stated many times, we're updating students numbers and study degrees we offer, in order to provide correct information. We would also change the information about our university's president, if that changed! These are all facts and no advertisement of any sort. All the information is from our website www.th-deg.de/en and there's no other information available, as the university publishes their own information. As far as I am concerned about Wikipedia's rules, I should still be able to REQUEST changes on the DIT wikipedia page in order for them to be published! Quote from above: 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. So please unblock me in order for me to request changes that are necessary to not have incorrect information published. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MartinaHeim (talk • contribs)
 * I know of the reason you are requesting unblock, but not why you did so under this account and not your original account. This matter should have been handled there first, but it's okay now. Only one open request is needed at a time, subsequent comment should be standard, unformatted comments like this. 331dot (talk) 07:03, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

The other account was used for our German Wikipedia article and we've got verified on the German page in order to make appropriate edits. However, my colleague was handling that account last year and now she can't make any changes to the English talk page there anymore, as it's been too long. We were advised by someone from Wikipedia to create a new account through a direct e-mail address, as that would solve the issue of getting blocked. We're not only listing what we offer, but also the history of our university and important facts that should be displayed (like the amount of students or faculties or research areas) on Wikipedia. I am of course intending to follow the guidelines of Wikipedia.