User talk:Sandor Katz

June 2019
Hello Sandor Katz. 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 Hunter College High 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:Sandor Katz. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 13:25, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, if you are going to add yourself to an article, you must provide a reliable source to support your edit. Thanks.  Magnolia677 (talk) 13:26, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello User:Magnolia677, I am Sandor Katz, an author and alumni of Hunter College High School just trying to get my name listed among the prominent alumni of the school. Though I see how it could be said that I have a financial stake in getting myself listed on there, I definitely am not being paid to list myself. Is self-promotion prohibited? Sandor Katz (talk) 16:48, 2 July 2019 (UTC)