User talk:OChist

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Hello, OChist, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Meszzy2 (talk) 08:22, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

April 2019
Hello OChist. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Guildford County School, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:OChist. 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. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 08:34, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello

I would like to confirm that I am not receiving any type of payment or compensation that comes from the edits of this page. I am an ex pupil of the school and I voluntarily improve and edit publications regarding the school.

No edits/ publications I do on Wikipedia are paid. I would greatly appreciate it if you reverted your deletion of my edits on the Guildford County school Wikipedia page. This is all accurate and true information. None of which constitutes  being removed from the page.

Thank you for your concern. OChist (talk) 08:44, 8 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi OChist, thank you for confirming that with us. I can understand wanting to improve the article regarding your own school. Please note however that Wikipedia has strict guidelines on how we source our content. You can read our policy of verifiability at WP:VERIFY. Maybe of more help to you, at WP:INTREF you can see some information on how to properly cite your contributions. Also, please note that your edits must adhere to our neutral point of view policy. Thank you, and happy editing! Meszzy2  (talk) 08:54, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * As says above, please stop adding unsourced content to this article. I suggest you read up on WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines which explains what can and cannot go into school articles. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 09:13, 8 April 2019 (UTC)