User talk:Scottwithcsumbnews

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November 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Csumbnews", 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".

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Corkythe hornetfan  18:52, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to California State University, Monterey Bay, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. Corkythe hornetfan  18:52, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

December 2015
Hello Csumbnews. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to California State University, Monterey Bay. 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. 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, 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:. 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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Finnusertop (talk &#124; guestbook &#124; contribs) 04:34, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 15:25, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

As you can see in the above notice regarding conflict of interest, people who are employed at the institution should not be editing the article about that institution. If you wish, you can create a new account to post suggested edts on the article talk page. The account should have a format such as "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation". Only one person should have access to the account. If you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page. -- Diannaa (talk) 20:04, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello. I work for the CSUMB communication office. I am the only one that has access to the account and the numbers and data that are on this page. We are a state institution. Not a for-profit. Nobody here is getting financial benefit for what's on the CSUMB Wiki page. The information about our institution (enrollment figures, etc) needs to be accurate. If I'm reading this right, you are suggesting to post this data to the talk page, then somebody on your end will update the CSUMB page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.189.249.62 (talk) 21:57, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, they are. It's the preferred way to edit articles you have a conflict of interest with to first post the improvements you want done on the talk page and let an uninvolved editor implement them. But there are other problems too: even if your institution is a non-profit, you as an employee are paid in that capacity, am I right? In this case, you must disclose this relationship. One more thing: the username "Csumbnews" is a problem because it is considered promotional. It's okay to include the name of the institution in your user name, however. For example: "Your Name Csumbnews", would be considered okay. I hope this helps. Finnusertop (talk &#124; guestbook &#124; contribs) 22:04, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi Finnusertop: thanks. We are confused over here. If I'm reading this correctly, I can simply change my user name and then fill out the mandatory disclosure page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.189.249.62 (talk) 23:58, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is correct. Finnusertop (talk &#124; guestbook &#124; contribs) 05:50, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Formal request:

Disclosure of paid editing can be made using the paid template. -- Diannaa (talk) 02:14, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Here is the disclosure: [Moved to User:Scottwithcsumbnews by Finnusertop (talk &#124; guestbook &#124; contribs) per Paid-contribution disclosure]

User name has been changed.
 * I've moved the paid to your main user page at User:Scottwithcsumbnews where it should be per Paid-contribution disclosure. I hope this is okay with you. Sorry for all the trouble you've been through; it's the kind of area where Wikipedia tends to be very bureaucratic. Finnusertop (talk &#124; guestbook &#124; contribs) 19:20, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! No worries. One question: how do we get the message "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view" removed from the top of the CSUMB wiki page?

Hello - how can the message "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view" be removed from the top of the CSUMB wiki page? What steps need to be done?
 * You need to discuss it on that article's talk page: Talk:California State University, Monterey Bay. I have a feeling that the "major contributor" they are referring to is you, and you have a disclosed conflict of interest. You need to talk to other editors on that talk page to see if they think the article is written from a neutral point of view. A conflict of interest doesn't result in inherently biased articles, but it (justly) raises concern about the risk. The banner you are talking about is added and removed manually by users; it's not intended to be there permanently, but only for the time that the issue is unresolved and/or under discussion.


 * The user who added the banner is . I hope he reads this message and expresses his view on the article talkpage. I've notified him. Finnusertop (talk &#124; guestbook &#124; contribs) 19:49, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Ok, great. Thanks!
 * I've made my comments here. A majority of the "advertisement-like" content was removed by another editor. 🎄 Corkythe hornetfan  🎄 23:55, 21 December 2015 (UTC)