User talk:Sarah at Grinnell

November 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Grinnellwebguys", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 20:10, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Hope I'm doing this right. Sorry about doing that wrong. I've requested a change to the username. The updates I've been doing have been just to update out-dated information, fix some broken links, and try to clean up some formatting inconsistencies, not to promote or advocate for anything. That's okay, right? Grinnellwebguys (talk) 21:48, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with... I just added a logo to Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize and want to make sure I've done it correctly (given the right amount of info, etc.).

Sarah at Grinnell (talk) 15:49, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me! (I'm not sure if the topic of that article is notable enough for an encyclopedia article but it's not egregious enough for me to pursue or worry about.) ElKevbo (talk) 17:01, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

June 2021
Hello Sarah at Grinnell. 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 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:Sarah at Grinnell. 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. ElKevbo (talk) 14:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link to the paid contribution policy. I hadn't reviewed policies in a while, as I don't update often. I have added a paid statement to my user page. FYI: Although I work at Grinnell, I try to maintain neutrality. The updates I've been making have been to bring the page up-to-date, not to change the tone. Did something I changed specifically feel that way to you? I'm just curious, as it wasn't my intent and I'd like to get your perspective so I can avoid doing something like that in the future.

Grinnell College edits
I'd suggest you go through the items you requested on the Grinnell College talk page and delete everything that's been completed. It takes up unnecessary space on the talk page, which should really be for discussion (non withstanding direction above). RickH86 (talk) 22:20, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I have done so. Thanks for the suggestion. Sarah at Grinnell (talk) 16:11, 27 July 2021 (UTC)