User talk:MitchWilliamsSRC

Your Files for Upload request: hexagon-spoon-river-college-logo.jpg
Hello, and thank you for your request at Files for upload! The file has been uploaded. Regards, &mdash; Mdaniels5757 (talk &bull; contribs) 18:09, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

January 2024
Hello MitchWilliamsSRC. 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 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 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:MitchWilliamsSRC. 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) 22:38, 26 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello ElKevbo. Thanks so much for this information.  Sorry for this oversight, as I'm still pretty new to making contributions on Wikipedia. Yes, I am employed by Spoon River College and was asked to update some information and details that are out of date and no longer accurate.  We were not aware of the COI issues.  I've now added the required disclosure on my user page, and will propose any future changes to the Spoon River College article page on the talk page.
 * Thanks for your help. MitchWilliamsSRC (talk) 15:37, 29 January 2024 (UTC)