User talk:Yvesandremartin

May 2023
Hello Yvesandremartin. 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:Yvesandremartin. 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) 23:28, 8 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I am the Communications Manager at Bellevue College, and it has been quite a while since the BC entry has been updated. For instance, the college suffered a significant decline in enrollment during the pandemic. But let me assure you, that all of the material that I have entered - every last stroke - has been vetted for accuracy. Not only is it available on the Bellevue College website, but statements regarding subjects like ROI for example, can be cite by original source. I will comply with Terms of Use, but I'm a bit taken by the tone of this message. 2601:600:A400:830:7C5F:CB57:ACB9:130C (talk) 05:24, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 21:49, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Conflict of interest suggestions
Hello, Yvesandremartin. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Bellevue College‎, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. -- Pemilligan (talk) 01:30, 10 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I understand. Yvesandremartin (talk) 01:50, 10 May 2023 (UTC)


 * A frequent (and incorrect) assumption we see with editors involved with companies/organizations is that they believe they have ownership or control over the content of the article about their organization. This is false; no one owns the content of articles, not even content you submit. Wikipedia is a collaborative project, and consensus is its fundamental editorial model.
 * As I mentioned at the conflict of interest noticeboard, it would be to your benefit to learn the process of making edit requests. Then you can submit changes for review on the article talk page that can be reviewed by independent editors. You should learn as well how to cite your sources with footnotes. All content on Wikipedia must be verifiable by citing reliable sources, and the burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 12:40, 15 May 2023 (UTC)