User talk:Theartist1986

October 2023
Hello Theartist1986. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to University of Exeter Business School, 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:Theartist1986. 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. 331dot (talk) 08:07, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

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You claimed the image of the logo as your own personal work, meaning that you designed it. Is that the case? You also uploaded it under Wikipedia's license, allowing for reuse for any purpose with attribution- meaning that anyone can take the logo and, for example sell it, and the university would not be entitled to any money from the sale of its own logo. Are you authorized by the university to do that, and do they want to do that? Logos typically cannot be on Commons and must be uploaded to this Wikipedia locally- new accounts cannot do that, but may use WP:FFU to work with others to do so.

Logos are typically uploaded under "fair use" rules. 331dot (talk) 08:09, 11 October 2023 (UTC)