User talk:Paulkovach

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June 2017
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A belated welcome!


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Your submission at Articles for creation: Steven R. Little has been accepted
 Steven R. Little, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Chetsford (talk) 18:16, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
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Orphaned non-free image File:Pitt Swanson School of Engineering 2014 Wordmark.jpg
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Your submission at Articles for creation: David Vorp has been accepted
 David Vorp, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Thanks again, and happy editing! Mdriscoll03 (talk) 16:48, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021
Hi Paulkovach! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at David Vorp that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 17:02, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lance Davidson (January 13)
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The comment the reviewer left was:

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Ldm1954 (talk) 14:37, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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Paid editing disclosure
Hello Paulkovach. 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:Paulkovach. 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.

Scary language of the above template aside, I do not mean to say that your edits are badly intentioned; some of them seem to be improvements, and it looks like you're editing with some restraint. But you've disclosed that you work for U Pitt, and it appears likely that Wikipedia editing may broadly fall under your job. I think that past consensus at the conflict of interest noticeboard tends to suggest that disclosure is required. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 16:00, 14 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello Russ...thank you for your message. I am employed as Director of Communications for the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. However, I do not receive compensation for my edits; rather updating any content related to the School is part of my "other duties as required." I will gladly post the Paid template as you request. Paulkovach (talk) 16:15, 14 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Paulkovach, thank you for adding the template! And, just to clarify, having it be a part of your job probably does fall under WP:PAID. (See "additional notes" there.)  I know that there are a lot of rules here, but it's part of how Wikipedia manages to be a high quality resource. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 17:29, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks! This is much appreciated. Have a great weekend! Paulkovach (talk) 17:34, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Lance Davidson
Hello, Paulkovach. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Lance Davidson, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 15:06, 14 June 2024 (UTC)