User talk:RGUWebTeam

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Hello RGUWebTeam. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Robert Gordon University, 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:RGUWebTeam. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 13:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)


 * unblock-spamun|RGU_Roisin|I'm not being paid for promotion via wikipedia, I am updating outdated information that wrongly reflects the university, it's campus and Academic schools, as well as key facts and figures RGUWebTeam (talk) 14:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

April 2024
 Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because your account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must: To do this, post the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked.
 * Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement; and
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked; and
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked; and
 * Provide a new username.

Please note that the new username you choose cannot already be taken and in use by another account. You can go here to search and see if the username you'd like to choose is available. If the search returns that no global account with that username exists, that means it is available to be taken.

Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Drmies (talk) 14:19, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

So you are not employed by the university as part of its web team? 331dot (talk) 16:01, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, for asking that. (A quick Google search proves the point.) Roisin(Fow), what you were doing here is not some simple, neutral, "update". Here's my tip: write only what is to be found in independent, reliable, neutral, secondary sources. Drmies (talk) 18:18, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello, it is not my view that I have been updating anything for promotional reasons. I am purely updating factual information that I will gladly find source for across secondary platforms. As mentioned previously, it appears that some information has not been updated for several years (around 2015-2016) meaning that the information that I have successfully updated and intend to update was and is not factual anymore. My aim is to ensure that Wikipedia includes the correct information about Robert Gordon University and will not be using it for any promotional gain for the university. RGUWebTeam (talk) 07:29, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Please answer my question. 331dot (talk) 07:34, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am on the web team at RGU. As your colleague pointed out already. Please review my reasoning as I have provided this as rules request. RGUWebTeam (talk) 08:19, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Employment is considered "paid editing", it does not require specific payment for edits, so you will need to make the Terms of Use-required paid editing disclosure on your user page once unblocked. Please see conflict of interest; we usually want to see people in your position edit in areas unrelated to their conflict of interest first, as a demonstration of their understanding of relevant policies, before permitting them to indirectly request COI related edits. However, I would be willing to consider unblocking you now if you agree to abide by the COI policy and limit yourself to proposing conflict of interest-related edits as edit requests(while understanding that you are permitted to remove unambiguous vandalism yourself). I think  will be okay with this. 331dot (talk) 08:26, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * 331dot, that would be fine, esp. since the editor does not see how their edits were indeed promotional and not just factual. I am not convinced they fully understand what our project is and what kinds of writing we do, nor am I convinced that they actually read the relevant policies and guidelines; in the meantime, edit requests, as outlined in the COI guidelines, are the way to go. Drmies (talk) 12:15, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

The content you added was copied from the school's website, and thus was a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Please don't add copyright material to Wikipedia. — Diannaa (talk) 20:13, 12 April 2024 (UTC)