User talk:Missmac302

Welcome!
Hello, Missmac302, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement, 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! — Jeff G. ツ 00:20, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021
Hello, I'm Jeff G.. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Jeff G. ツ 00:20, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello Missmac302. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement, 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:Missmac302. 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. This was based on claiming the new logo was own work when trying to upload it to Wikimedia Commons; see the abuse filter log there.  — Jeff G. ツ 00:26, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement, 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:Missmac302, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. — Jeff G. ツ 14:53, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. — Jeff G. ツ 05:13, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Need help correcting page
Hello, I tried to correct and update the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement non-profit program page but you reverted the changes. I have made changes in past years to this page without incident. While I do work for this program I am pulling this information from our website (which is run by the University of California). I can add additional citing but all of the information I added is indeed true and correct.

What I'm really confused about is the below paragraph that I realized was added to the page. It is clearly editorializing and is in fact untrue. "Meanwhile, the V-Chancellor's office thinks it's a great time to pull the rug out from underneath..." is obviously an opinion. How was this user able to add this and I can't include true statistics. I'm new to this process but this is frustrating. Thank you. Missmac302 (talk) 17:12, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

The MESA program in California has been shutdown effective 07/01/2020. The current year 20-21 is unfunded. 'This year should have been a renewal year for the MESA program statewide. Instead, the Vice-Chancellor has delayed the proposal and NO California colleges are being funded even though the legislature funded the program. We are in the middle of a pandemic, first generation college students are struggling to adjust to a virtual environment. Meanwhile, the V-Chancellor's office thinks it's a great time to pull the rug out from underneath proven decades old MESA programs across California.
 * Hello - the procedure to discuss this kind of content dispute is usually first to mention it on the talk page of the article which seem to be this one Talk:Mathematics,_Engineering,_Science_Achievement, further information who to handle those kind of disputes you will find at WP:CYCLE and WP:DISPUTE. CommanderWaterford (talk) 17:57, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * What is the current status of the MESA program in California for school year 2020-21? Is it funded or not? If not, what are the circumstances causing it to be not funded, and who made the decision not to fund it and when?  — Jeff G. ツ 14:57, 14 March 2021 (UTC)