User talk:Maryhubermoody

May 2023
Hello Maryhubermoody. 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:Maryhubermoody. 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. MrOllie (talk) 16:00, 30 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi there! I was not aware of this policy. I do work for the college, but I am not attempting to receive any compensation for my edits or to advocate for the college in any way, merely providing historical and descriptive information about the college. You suggested posting a mandatory disclosure on my user page, but I do not see how to do so? Once I do that, will I be able to edit our Moody College wiki again? Many thanks! Maryhubermoody (talk) 14:43, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * You're splitting hairs there that Wikipedia's policy doesn't split - you are a PR employee of the college, so you are considered a paid editor here. I appreciate that you were attempting to provide descriptive information, but as is common with paid editors what you were actually doing was editing in a promotional way. If you properly disclose and get the block removed, you will be able to make suggestions for changes on the article's associated discussion page (instructions are linked in the above message), but you should not return to editing the article directly. MrOllie (talk) 15:07, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

June 2023
As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Moody College of Communication, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Maryhubermoody, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. MrOllie (talk) 13:57, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. MrOllie (talk) 13:30, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning if you make any further edits without responding to the inquiry you received regarding undisclosed paid editing. MrOllie (talk) 15:28, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

I have blocked you indefinitely for apparently being an undisclosed paid editor. PhilKnight (talk) 17:04, 12 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Phil,
 * I'm not quite sure what to do here. I was going to copy and paste what you sent me on my user page, but now it won't allow me to do that. My apologies! This formatting is kind of confusing to me. I do work for Moody College, but I am not promoting us in any way. I am simply providing historical and factual information about the college. I can add what you informed me too, but since I am blocked indefinitely it won't let me. I'm sorry I didn't get to this sooner!
 * Many thanks,
 * Mary Maryhubermoody (talk) 15:39, 20 June 2023 (UTC)