User talk:Charles Wyatt

Hi, Charles Wyatt. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask a question on your talk page. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:03, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Charles Wyatt. 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 Limestone College, 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:Charles Wyatt. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Charles Wyatt|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:03, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This is Charles Wyatt. I am employed by Limestone College and I serve as the Vice President for Communications & Marketing. I am editing Limestone College's page to provide the proper information and to correct incorrect information. Charles Wyatt (talk) 18:11, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there - I have reverted some of your changes to Limestone College. You do need to provide citations / references for information you add to the page, especially as you have disclosed a financial interest in the page. I will post a welcome to you with some links where you can find out more. Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 18:19, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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