User talk:Philipschuler

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Etiwanda High School, 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.

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October 2018
Hello Philipschuler. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Philipschuler. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. ''There is a strong indication here that you are an employee of the school district. Please stop editing articles concerning Chaffey Joint Union High School District immediately and comply with the requirements of Wikipedia's terms of use.'' John from Idegon (talk) 04:15, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Chaffey High School, you may be blocked from editing. John from Idegon (talk) 04:18, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi John- My name is Philip and I have been updating some schools in the Chaffey Joint Union High School District. The pages have not been up to date in terms of some logos of the schools and current information about them from recent years. I am not being compensated for the contributions, just noticed that they have been neglected for a while. Please advise if I need to change the practice. Philipschuler (talk) 04:24, 3 October 2018 (UTC)Philipschuler
 * So are you denying that you work for the school district? John from Idegon (talk) 04:36, 3 October 2018 (UTC)


 * I work for the Chaffey school district, but editing wikipedia is not part of my job there. Just noticed the district's pages were out of date. I have knowledge of the district and community and wanted to add more detail than what was there. Everything I had should have been referenced in some form. If I need to declare that I work there or change anything, please advise. Appreciate the guidance. Philipschuler (talk) 04:39, 3 October 2018 (UTC)Philipschuler
 * So, Phillip, here's the issue. People at Wikipedia don't get paid. Not one single person directly involved with the creation or maintenance of content on Wikipedia are paid employees. We are all volunteers. Although at this time, Wikipedia does allow, under certain conditions which you have not met, some paid editing, people who seriously edit Wikipedia view that as a negative. In order for me to help you do what you get paid to do, I have to stop doing what I normally do (stuff I do for free because for various reasons, I like to do and receive no financial gain from doing). So I won't be doing that. It's up to you to figure out how to do this, and you are not doing it right. My suggestion is to learn how by making small edits to subjects unrelated to your conflict, reading help and policy pages, looking at other articles in edit mode to see how they are constructed, comply with the requirements outlined above and in a month or so when you are more competent, make edit requests (how to do that is also explained if you follow the links above) on the talk pages of the articles you want to edit, declaring your conflict when you do. I'll be happy to help you with your edits requests once you've developed the insight to make them correctly. Just ping me. But please do not ping me for help. I simply won't be doing it. If you want further info on how I feel about paid editing, take a look at my user page. John from Idegon (talk) 05:07, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

I appreciate the guidance on this. New to this side of Wikipedia, and have some learning to do. Thanks again. Philipschuler (talk) 05:13, 3 October 2018 (UTC)Philipschuler

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